#iv

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#creative #express #humor #i #i think

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#five #racing #strategy #top #wants

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#argue #car #driving #her #i

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#driving #edge #either #ever #go

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#appreciate #day #exist #fears #i

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#lot #terribly #writing

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#doing #embarrassing #harm #individual #institutions

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#conscious #created #divinity #erect #god