Laurie Anderson Quotes

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

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• For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Yourself

• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
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  • Dark
  • Shadow

• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
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  • Win

• To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.

  

  Gail Carriger
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  • Youngest

• First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Car

• You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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  • Responsible

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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  • Land

• I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Fighting
  • Arena

• When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Best

• Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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  • Mobile

• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Time
  • Work

• I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Thought

• We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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  • Need
  • Protection

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
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  • Painting

• Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
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  • Hunting
  • Fishing

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

  

  Raf Simons
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• In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

  

  Laurie Anderson
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