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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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