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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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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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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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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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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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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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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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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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