Laurie Anderson Quotes

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

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• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Good
  • Party

• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Future
  • Song
  • Style

• What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Want
  • You
  • Star

• I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Game
  • Learning
  • Jeopardy

• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Body
  • Stronger
  • Waste

• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Sick
  • Sin
  • Two

• By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wall

• No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Good
  • Power
  • Angry

• All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Suffering

• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Machines

• Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Obstacles

• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Keep

• Time and work. I just hope we don't run out of time.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Used

• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Guitar
  • Bob

• Yoga is a means and an end.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mean
  • Yoga
  • Inspiring

• We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Believe
  • Desires
  • Average

• Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Action
  • Bold
  • Average

• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • inspirational

• I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Inspiring
  • Average