Laurie Anderson Quotes
If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
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We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
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You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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The aim of dis-incumbence is a hubristic one, for it requires confidence in the ability of men and women to live in the belief that nothing they do can, in the end, be justified by anything. That's a belief that it is easy to proclaim in seminar rooms or pubs, but not one that people could actually live with.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
