Lyle Lovett Quotes
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Government is waging war against the people.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.
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We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
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'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
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I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
