Brian Eno Quotes
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine is because there's the promise of reliable work. That's a powerful idea that got hammered into my head growing up: Be this thing, or else you'll starve.
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I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
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I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no one else is going to do it that way. If you don't do it, then no one else will - and the world won't see it.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
