Brian Eno Quotes
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
