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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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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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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