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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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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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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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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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.
