Brian Eno Quotes
I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I would never disrespect a man's way of life, especially if they're happy.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
