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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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 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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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