Brian Eno Quotes
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks and are as important to the big-data equation as the numbers themselves.
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The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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Take away our things, and something in us dies.
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
