Lyle Lovett Quotes
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
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If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
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You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
