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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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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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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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The fewer expectations you have, the 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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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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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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