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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?
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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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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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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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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