Brian Eno Quotes
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. And Michael Seibel says, 'There are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.' The first thing I thought is, 'I can't believe this guy believes in angels.' That's how naive I was.
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When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
