Laurie Anderson Quotes
Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.
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I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
