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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
Artist
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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 genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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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 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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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