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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.
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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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 so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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