Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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There's no people like show people.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.
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My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
