Ed O'Brien Quotes

When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.

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• When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Live
  • Parents
  • City

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Israel
  • Hatred

• I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Want
  • Place
  • New York

• Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.

  

  Karl Schroeder

• The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Space
  • Friend

• Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Stop
  • Singing

• That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Pretty
  • Past
  • Road

• I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

  

  Gayle King
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Running

• I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Remember
  • Green

• One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.

  

  Katie McGrath
  • Country
  • Kids
  • House

• Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • People
  • Earth
  • Alone

• Janet Jackson - I enjoy her style and her dancing.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Style

• Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

  

  Peter McWilliams

• I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

  

  Jehane Noujaim

• I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Artist
  • Jobs
  • Literally

• The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wisdom
  • Bible
  • Koran

• The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Treasure
  • Secure
  • Merchant

• My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

  

  Scott Kim
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Designer

• Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

  

  Neil Patel
  • Create
  • Product
  • Feedback

• When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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  • Recorded
  • Videos