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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
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Film Director
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Musician
Performance Artist
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Technology
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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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 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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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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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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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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