Laurie Anderson Quotes
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.
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The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'
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You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
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Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
