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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. ↗

— Brian Eno

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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' ↗

— Brian Eno

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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ↗

— Epictetus

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Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody. ↗

— Matt Bomer

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