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.

Lyle Lovett

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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.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Down

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Friendships

• 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.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Father
  • Serious
  • Meaningful

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Future
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Real
  • She
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Real
  • Man
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Government
  • Problems

• If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Live
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Platform

• print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution

  

  Larry Wall
  • Interesting

• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Joy
  • Envy

• 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.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • Men
  • Simple

• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World

• Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

  

  Ethan Nadelmann
  • History
  • Talent
  • Opportunities

• I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • People
  • Up

• I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

  

  Mary Leakey
  • House

• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Words

• 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• 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.

  

  Lyle Lovett