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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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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'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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