Laurie Anderson Quotes

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Faith is important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Me

• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Life
  • True
  • Beautiful

• It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Teach

• A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.

  

  Harriet Harman

• About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop.

  

  Lawyer
  • Stop
  • Practice
  • Lawyer

• We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Party

• It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Flower

• There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Wisdom

• I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Music

• I like to work with people of different cultures, different points of view. But yeah, I feel much more comfortable. That's the problem I sometimes have with going to Hollywood. I feel like they don't share the same values as I do. They aren't interested in the same things. It's not always true, but sometimes, I feel it deeply, because as an industry, they celebrate things that I'm less interested in, and it's all about the business.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Different
  • Culture

• There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.

  

  Maria Mitchell
  • Good
  • God
  • Trust

• I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Heaven
  • Believes