Lyle Lovett Quotes

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

Lyle Lovett

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TrustPeopleOpinionYouThreeOwn

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

Ana Patricia Botin

TogetherWayThingsTakeDidWorks

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold

FoodYourselfControlSickYouEat

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.

Roger Bannister

GoodResearchFeelingFameDone

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

PerspectiveWarVictoryUnderstand

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

Jason Aldean

HatHatsMy OwnLineOwnCowboy

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

Jason Fried

PeopleNumbersKnowFirstRightUp

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

Jason Isbell

TimeDayPeopleWorldSongBook

One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.

Jordan Gavaris

TimeFaceYouStreetGuyDifferent

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Clive Barker

GoodVillainBelieveStoryOnly

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Bruce Feiler

WomanReligionAmericaDomain

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

Phil Klay

MeIdeasWritingPressureConfused

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker

HealthTogetherSleepGoldenChain

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