Brian Eno Quotes
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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What words are in you that can change the world?
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I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
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Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
