Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.