Laurie Anderson Quotes
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
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If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
