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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. ↗

— Brian Eno

#activity #areas #commit #cultures #feelings

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#i #like #myself #reading #tv

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#get #going #i #i do #just

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. ↗

— Michael Franti

#against #angry #clap #dance #gaza

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. ↗

— Michael Franti

#could #day #did #each #i

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#acting #forget #rock #roll

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i