Brian Eno Quotes

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
  • Go

• There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • India
  • Coming

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Mother
  • Best
  • Cool

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Up
  • Real
  • America

• Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  

  Pat Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Work
  • Done
  • American

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Play
  • Film

• I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

  

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