Laurie Anderson Quotes

Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

Laurie Anderson

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• I believe that everything has a shelf life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Movie
  • Years
  • First

• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Nothing

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Things
  • Force

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • I Can

• I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • May
  • She
  • Fun

• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Intelligent

• There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun

• I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • People
  • Dark
  • Hair

• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Revolution

• Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • People
  • Technology
  • Stupid