Laurie Anderson Quotes
You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.
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Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
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You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
