Brian Eno Quotes
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.
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The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
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I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
