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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.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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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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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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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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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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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