Brian Eno Quotes
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
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Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
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To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.
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'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
