Brian Eno Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
