Brian Eno Quotes
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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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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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
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A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
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There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.
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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
