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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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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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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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 travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
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I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
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At the end of the day, basketball is basketball. You've got a whole life to live.
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Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
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She's Beyoncé, and I'm Jay-Z's new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.
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There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.
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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.
