Lisa Loeb Quotes
I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
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I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
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If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.
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I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
