Laurie Anderson Quotes

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Laurie Anderson

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• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Moment

• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Brave

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Young

• The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • American
  • My Life

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Me
  • Kick
  • Homeland

• In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Me
  • Race
  • Against

• Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Small

• A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • World
  • Support
  • Growth

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Alone

• Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Done

• Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Pain

• When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Not Allowed

• Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Problem
  • Matter
  • Forget

• I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Forget
  • Compliments
  • Hang