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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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