Brian Eno Quotes
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
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I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
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I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
