Laurie Anderson Quotes
I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.
Quotes to Explore
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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H. E. Butler's translation:
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The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
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The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
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I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.
