Brian Eno Quotes
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
Quotes to Explore
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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...a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute...
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
