Brian Wilson Quotes
I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.
Quotes to Explore
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
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In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
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Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.
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I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.
