Brian Eno Quotes
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Being evil is easy.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.
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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.
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Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
