Laurie Anderson Quotes
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
Wale
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
Felicity Jones
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
Edgardo Osorio
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. Lawrence
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
Callie Khouri
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
G. Willow Wilson
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
Vidal Sassoon
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
Rachel Bilson
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
Iman
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All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.
Rachel Zoe
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Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
Marilyn Monroe
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Economists should study financial markets as they actually operate, not as they assume them to operate—observing the way in which information is actually processed, observing the serial correlations, bonanzas, and sudden stops, not assuming these away as noise around the edges of efficient and rational markets.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.
Noreena Hertz
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
