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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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 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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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
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This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
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Sports is all about money.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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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.
