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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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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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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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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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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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