Brian Eno Quotes
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.
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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
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I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.
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I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
