Jon Brion Quotes
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality-religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.
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I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.
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I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.
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'What may I do?' at length I cried, Tired of the painful task. The fairy quietly replied, And said 'You must not ask.'
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Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
