Brian Eno Quotes

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno Roxy Music

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• To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Book
  • Know
  • Nice

• I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • Crush
  • Beyonce

• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Human
  • Forget

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Different
  • Today

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
  • Law
  • Police

• The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

  

  Beck
  • Mind
  • Why
  • City

• My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

  

  Iman
  • Men
  • Father
  • Positive

• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Hockey

• That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • True
  • Girl
  • Question

• I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Thoughts

• We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.

  

  Ivo Daalder
  • Trust
  • Institutions
  • Right Thing

• My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Wrestling
  • Profession
  • Consideration

• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility

• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music