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When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.


Lisa Ling

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LISA GARDNER In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5t...
LISA MORTON A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
LISA MURKOWSKI Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure ...
LISA RANDALL My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her bac...
LISA GRAFF We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore ...
LISA MURKOWSKI I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprou...
LISA EDELSTEIN 'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going...
LISA LAMPANELLI It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between t...
LISA HANNIGAN With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings o...
LISA LOEB I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python...
LISA GRAFF Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of s...
LISA RANDALL In Beverly Hills, it's very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the...
LISA VANDERPUMP If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth...
LISA JAKUB For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone thro...
LISA VANDERPUMP I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or...
LISA GANSKY Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up?...
LISA KLEYPAS If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.
LISA KLEYPAS I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, ...
LISA ALTHER I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER Frost’s face darkened. “What gives you the right to speak for Miss Hathaway and her family?” <...
LISA KLEYPAS You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
LISA KLEYPAS