Lisa Loeb Quotes
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.
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As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
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You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
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I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
