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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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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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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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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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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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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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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