Brian Eno Quotes

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Kiss

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Man
  • Nothing

• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Responsibility
  • Hands

• Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Genius
  • Virtue
  • Bright

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Want
  • Control
  • Employees

• Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Taken

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Up
  • House
  • City

• Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Great
  • Character
  • Earth

• The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Boy
  • Feel
  • Better

• My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Done
  • Feet

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• I think musicians here India get ripped off. Music production houses take good care of artists abroad and though the upfront signing amount is much less than what I get here, the royalty takes care of future returns.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Future

• There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

  

  James Gray
  • Purpose
  • English
  • Romantic

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Sun
  • Theatre

• I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Free

• These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

  

  Frank Carlucci

• I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music