Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
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The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!
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And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.
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I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.
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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
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I think most Americans have been watching a stealth strategy. But now they're coming out from behind the curtain.
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the dog under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
