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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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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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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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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It has become a routine for the media to link me with all the stars I work with.
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It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
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Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.
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Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.
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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.
