Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!
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The fightback begins now!
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Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.'
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
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Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
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Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.
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I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
