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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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