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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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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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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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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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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Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.
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Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.
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Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.
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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.
