Brian Eno Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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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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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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Think inside the work - outside the work.
