Brian Eno Quotes

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno

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CommunityGreatYourselfEmpathyMe

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

Matthew McConaughey

WorkManYourselfPeopleYouLook

In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GunYouOverBuyCarryGet

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

John Wooden

GoodYouWayMoreBeingThan

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

Stephen Curry

CollegeYouPlaceScheduleWhatever

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Robert Falcon Scott

DogLivingHumanInterestAlmost

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Michael Leunig

FearRelationshipImaginationCandle

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Michael Moore

DemocracyEventSpectatorParticipate

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Mitt Romney

LoveParentingMomGiftGreatest

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Denzel Washington

YearsRuleBeenUnemployedException

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

Christie Hefner

CommunicationPowerControlLanguage

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

Brad Paisley

RulesDoneJust

For me, I try not to think about it too much, because you find that if you think about it too much, then you start to panic at every little thing that goes on in training.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

TrainingMeStartThinkYouFind

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