Carl Wilson Quotes

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

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• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

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• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  

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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

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• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

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• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

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• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

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• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

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• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  

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• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

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• My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

  

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• In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

  

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• I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre.

  

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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
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