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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.
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'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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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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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special.
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