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Explore more quotes by Laurie Anderson

"People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret."

"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."

"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."

"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

"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."

"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said."

"My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people."
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"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."

"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."

"Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment."

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence."

"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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