Laurie Anderson Quotes
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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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.
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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.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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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.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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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.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I'm an urban act.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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We love the kindly wind and hail,The jolly thunderbolt,We watch in glee the fairy trailOf ampere, watt, and volt.
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When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
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Please take my advice, please take my advice,Open up the tired eyes,Open up the tired eyes.
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
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I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
