Laurie Anderson Quotes
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'
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The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
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Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
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So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
