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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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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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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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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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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Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.
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Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.
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Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
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I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
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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.
