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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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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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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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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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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I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.
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Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it.
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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
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People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
