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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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