Laurie Anderson Quotes

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

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• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Way
  • Same

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Reading
  • Mystery

• Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Scripture
  • Then

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Fly
  • Vegetarian

• As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Art
  • Principles
  • Opponents

• The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.

  

  Sam Endicott The Bravery
  • Life
  • Love
  • Idea

• Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Art
  • Teach
  • Writers