Brian Eno Quotes
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
