Laurie Anderson Quotes
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
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 -
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
Barbara Eden -
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson -
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
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Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Xun Kuang -
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 -
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
Usher -
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 -
I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. Joshua -
I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.
E. W. Howe -
Believe in the holy contour of life
Jack Kerouac -
Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse - why, then, Who set it there?
Omar Khayyam -
And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: 'Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass.' But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
Agatha Christie -
I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
Patti Scialfa -
There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
Kelis Rogers
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I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
David Muir -
It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
Carole King -
You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
Seth Godin -
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Samuel Johnson -
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Laurie Anderson