Laurie Anderson Quotes
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.
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There's no fine line between 'free speech' and 'hate speech': Free speech is hate speech; it's for the speech you hate – and for all your speech that the other guy hates. If you don't have free speech, then you can't have an honest discussion.
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So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place."
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
