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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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