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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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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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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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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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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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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special.
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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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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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