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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I'm a real workaholic.
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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 not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
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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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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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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future.
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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.
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
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Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.