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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
Choreographer
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Film Director
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Musician
Performance Artist
Photographer
Poet
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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