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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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