Lisa Loeb Quotes
Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
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In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
