Laurie Anderson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
-
Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
-
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
-
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
-
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
-
My wife watches me like a hawk.
-
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
-
It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
-
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
-
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
-
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
-
I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
-
Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
-
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
-
I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
-
She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
-
Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
-
If India's government is to be an institution integrated with her people's lives, if it is to be a true democracy and not a superimposed western institution staged in Indian dress, religion must have an important and recognized place in it with impartiality and reverence for all the creeds and denominations prevailing in India.
-
On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'
-
I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just knew that I wouldn't be returning.
-
I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
