Laurie Anderson Quotes

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

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• I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Vacation
  • Restaurant

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • American
  • Culture
  • Day

• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Want
  • Feels

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Swimming
  • Naked

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth

• Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life

• There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • World
  • Greed

• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Proud

• We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Country

• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Trust

• In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Power
  • Parents

• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Trust
  • Taste
  • Audiences