Brian Warren Quotes
I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I was pretty stoked on that, but the band wasn't really my style so after like six months of playing with them I decided to play with the aesthetic of a DIY hardcore band playing pop music. That was the original idea.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I was pretty stoked on that, but the band wasn't really my style so after like six months of playing with them I decided to play with the aesthetic of a DIY hardcore band playing pop music. That was the original idea.
