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 was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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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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Happiness is an inside job.
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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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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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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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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
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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.
