Laurie Anderson Quotes

Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

Laurie Anderson

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Path
  • Follow

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• I put myself through college playing pool.

  

  Walter Alston
  • College
  • Myself
  • Pool

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• I will open an era of grand national unity.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Will
  • Unity
  • Open

• What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Brain
  • Son

• It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hunting
  • Lion

• One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Done
  • Pain

• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Book
  • Shopping

• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• I have my own marketing company, Always Civil, where I help artists create their online identity. I have worked with Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Mary J. Blige, Pusha T - the list goes on.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Help
  • Identity
  • Marketing

• If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Humanity

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Stories
  • Movies
  • Themes

• Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Power
  • Technology
  • Stories