Laurie Anderson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
-
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
-
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
-
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
-
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
-
There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
-
MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
-
It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
-
A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
-
Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
-
One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
-
I'm an urban act.
-
Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
-
Commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. In exchange for forfeiting his primary fantasy, what does he hope to fulfill? His primary need: intimacy.
-
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may beA pleasant road.I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from meAught of its load;
-
Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.
-
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
-
When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.
-
Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.
-
As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
-
'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'
-
The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
