Brian Eno Quotes
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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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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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.
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When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
