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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.
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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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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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