Laurie Anderson Quotes
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 like being by myself.
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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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
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I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
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Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
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I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
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I knew what I wanted and where I wanted to go. I always wanted to entertain and help others.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
