Laurie Anderson Quotes

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

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• I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Lyrics

• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Know

• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Slice

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Brother

• I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Competition

• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Driven

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• I like how small you can be on TV.

  

  Indira Varma
  • You
  • Small
  • Like

• The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Spiritual

• Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Trade
  • Dollar

• When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Taken
  • Financial
  • Crisis

• I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Women
  • Strong

• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Unique
  • Persons
  • Grow

• One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Inspired
  • Concepts
  • Allowing

• Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Blanks

• The fewer expectations you have, the better.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Expectations
  • Fewer