Lyle Lovett Quotes

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

Lyle Lovett

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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Jock Sturges

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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Joan Jett

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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

Andrew Davies

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

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If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

Michael Winslow

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I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Miranda July

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God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

Jay Parini

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

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I know how good I am, and the fans know how good I am.

Dolph Ziggler

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Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.

Daya

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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Bono

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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Bob Woodward

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