Lyle Lovett Quotes
I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.
Quotes to Explore
-
The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
-
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
-
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
-
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
-
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
-
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
-
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
-
When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
-
I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
-
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
-
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
-
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
-
The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
-
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
-
Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
-
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
-
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
-
I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.
-
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
-
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
-
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
-
We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.
-
I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.
