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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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What you can do is a matter of what you will do.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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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.
