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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But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.
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'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.
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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.
