Laurie Anderson Quotes
They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.
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Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.
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The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
