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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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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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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.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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