Lisa Loeb Quotes

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

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• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Player

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Me
  • Hard

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.

  

  Mary Berry

• Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

  

  Maureen Johnson
  • People
  • Writing

• A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

  

  Mark Morris

• From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • New York
  • Mountains

• My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Writing
  • Success