Lyle Lovett Quotes
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
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I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.
