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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ↗

— Brian Eno

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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music. ↗

— Enya

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I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be. ↗

— Pam Bondi

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage. ↗

— Peter Bondra

#best #best way #game #learn #our