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" You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? "

Laurie Anderson

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" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

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" I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. "

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" A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. "

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" I hate zoos. "

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" The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals. "

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

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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "

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" I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "

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" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "

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Decision-Making

" I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. "

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" 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. "

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" I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. "

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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "

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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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" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "

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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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" 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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" I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. "

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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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" My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. "

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" Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. "

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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "

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