Laurie Anderson Quotes

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

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• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Home
  • Want
  • Know

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Country
  • Family
  • Day

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Strong
  • Energy

• Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Heaven
  • Human Nature

• I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Purpose
  • Congress
  • Defense

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Shows
  • Record

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Challenges
  • Learned
  • Lessons

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Saying

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Violence
  • Jail

• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Kids
  • True

• Listen, buds, it's March twenty first;Don't you know enough to burst?Come on, birds, unlock your throats!Come on, gardeners, shed your coats!

  

  Ogden Nash
  • March

• ‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mind
  • Brain

• As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • True
  • Artist
  • Choose