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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
-
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
-
My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
-
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
-
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
-
You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
-
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.
-
Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
-
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!!!'
-
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.
-
My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
-
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
-
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
-
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.
-
Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.
-
Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.
-
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
-
I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear
-
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
-
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.
