Laurie Anderson Quotes
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.
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I never starved myself.
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I love twins stories.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
