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.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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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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If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.
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A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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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.
