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

• 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

• 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 always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • Time
  • Live

• I am proud of every one of my teammates.

  

  Neymar
  • Proud

• All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

  

  John Walters
  • People

• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Miracle
  • Believes

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

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Heaven
  • Believes