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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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
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Without question, I wake every night five times.
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
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I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.
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You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
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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.
