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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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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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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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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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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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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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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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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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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I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
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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.
