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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Devil

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • Moving
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• Meditation helps me to calm down.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Calm
  • Meditation

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Community
  • Question
  • Intelligence

• 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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry
  • Moment
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Like

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

  

  Venus Williams
  • School
  • Business
  • Design

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• 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.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Nice
  • Understanding
  • Grow

• In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • City
  • New York

• I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Focus
  • Media
  • Gossip

• Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Perseverance

• Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Divine
  • Perform

• 'And then what?' said her Dæmon sleepily 'build what?''The Republic of Heaven.'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Heaven

• They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Heaven
  • Need
  • Television