Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.
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Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
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I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.
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I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.
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Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.
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I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
