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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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