Lyle Lovett Quotes

I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively.

Lyle Lovett

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• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Style

• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Political
  • Girl

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Always
  • Calling

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People
  • Trying
  • Unknown

• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Business
  • Trouble

• My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • Bad

• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Fall
  • Humility
  • Greatness

• I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People