Brian Eno Quotes
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.
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I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
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After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'
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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
