Lyle Lovett Quotes

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.

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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fear
  • You
  • Scared

• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
  • President
  • Will

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Different
  • Emotions

• Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Time
  • Child

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• I am a fan of wuxia.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Fan
  • Wuxia

• When you do it yourself, you feel better.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Better
  • Yourself

• But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Men
  • Broken
  • Fate

• I'm a singer who touches millions of people and my words and my knowledge of what I'm learning from cancer can help millions. And if I can help millions, even if I help one person, that's one person more than none.

  

  Anastacia
  • People
  • Help
  • Words

• One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Woman
  • Lips

• I want to live with all of my memories, even if they’re sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I’ll overcome the pain, and then I’ll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Memories

• The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Hand
  • Path

• If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Song
  • Words