Brian Eno Quotes

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Brian Eno

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MusicCultureThinkEnoughMatter

I leave a $100 bill and a note to the housekeeper at every hotel I've ever been in. It's important to write that they're recognized and appreciated.

Jim Irsay

HotelImportantWriteLeaveBeen

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

FutureLivePastImpossiblePresent

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

Jim Crace

BeenYoungerShouldKinder

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Andy Garcia

ChildrenYourselfBetterYouOpen

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

Robert Mundell

FreeYouKindFree TradeTradeJust

I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.

Ann McKee

LifeSucceedDoingYouWantLimit

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

Jeff Zucker

MemorySayingWatchingUpCNNGrew

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

Jayne Meadows

UpBeingJustFed UpPlainJane

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

Joshua Harris

MoneyDatingShoppingYouFindNow

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Johnny Mathis

LifeWomanMeSingingRestVoice

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

LovePeopleLaborMorePaySee

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

Clare Balding

TimeWordsManThoughtYouEveryday

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