Brian Eno Quotes
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.
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Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
