Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.And when justice is gone, there's always force.And when force is gone, there's always Mom.Hi Mom!
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I'm a real workaholic.
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I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
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Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"
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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."
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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future.
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.