Lyle Lovett Quotes
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
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You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
