Laurie Anderson Quotes
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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I like being by myself.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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In like a dimwit, out like a light.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
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They may be lies But say that we'll be alright If we stay tonight
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A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.
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I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
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When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
