Brian Eno Quotes

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Know
  • Development

• But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trust

• I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Film
  • Travel
  • Meetings

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Period

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

  

  Peter Hain
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Stop the incitement in your media and your schools.Stop naming public squares and athletic teams after suicide bombers.And come to the negotiating table when you have prepared your people to forego hatred and renounce terrorism - and Israel will embrace you.Until that day, there can be no peace with Hamas. Peace at any price isn't peace; it's surrender.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Peace
  • Stop

• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Return
  • Begins
  • Real Love

• There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Country
  • Deep

• I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Pretty
  • Community
  • Theatre

• The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

  

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