Laurie Anderson Quotes
When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
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'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
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Being a part of the 'Twilight' phenomenon was life-changing; there is a whole other world of 'Twilight' fandom!
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We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
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[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.
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There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
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What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
