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The fewer expectations you have, the better.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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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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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 love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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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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