Lyle Lovett Quotes
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
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I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
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I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
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I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
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But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.
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Fortunately, I've never had a job.
