Brian Eno Quotes
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Real Learning comes from failures and mistakes...rarely from success.
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Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
