Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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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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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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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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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
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Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
