Laurie Anderson Quotes

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • She
  • Food
  • Early

• If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Attractive
  • Texture

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• You can only do so much theatre.

  

  Victor Garber
  • You
  • Theatre
  • Only

• I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Enough

• The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Woman
  • Sophisticated
  • Chic

• If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Work
  • You
  • Down

• Nobody's free until everybody's free.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Free
  • Nobody
  • Everybody

• My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Money
  • Die

• I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Country
  • Night
  • Energy

• Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

  

  Deep Roy
  • Great
  • Food
  • Wine

• A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Family
  • Home
  • Book

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

  

  John Cabrera
  • World

• Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Kind

• I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • People
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Dream
  • Write
  • Poem