Bruce Johnston Quotes

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

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• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Mother
  • Environment
  • Unique

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  

  E. B. White
  • Space
  • See
  • View

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Bald

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Violence
  • See
  • Gun

• Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

  

  Sally Field
  • She
  • Young
  • Lawyer

• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • First
  • Duty
  • Revolutionary

• Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Old
  • Looking
  • Glass

• I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • May
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Chap

• As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

  

  Paul Anka
  • Long
  • Growing

• Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.

  

  Jonathan Maberry

• I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Seems

• You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

  

  Bruce Johnston
  • Beach