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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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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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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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.
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People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
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I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It’s the only way to save ourselves.
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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.
