Brian Eno Quotes
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
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I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.
Biz Stone -
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
