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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
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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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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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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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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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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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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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