Laurie Anderson Quotes
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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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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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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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
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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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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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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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Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
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I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.
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Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
