Lyle Lovett Quotes
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.
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To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
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There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
