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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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 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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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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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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 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 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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