Lyle Lovett Quotes
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
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My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
