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.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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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.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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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.
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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.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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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.
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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.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.
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When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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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.
