Brian Eno Quotes

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

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• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Myself

• Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • High
  • Smart
  • Youth

• I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kitchen

• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Best
  • Honest
  • Discussions

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Good
  • Think
  • Limited

• When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fate
  • Try
  • Down

• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Food

• When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

  

  David Foster
  • Up
  • Player

• I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Things
  • Sing
  • Hats

• The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Ifs

• It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.

  

  Andrew Gurland
  • Love
  • Respect
  • General

• You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Changing
  • Helps
  • Audition

• I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Radio
  • Twitter
  • Adopter

• Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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  • Skeleton