Brian Wilson Quotes

I was very, very surprised. I never thought I would be that loved or respected.

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• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Enjoy
  • Audience
  • Being

• The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Family
  • Father

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Too

• I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Celebrity

• Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Different
  • Family
  • Black

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Music
  • Politics
  • News

• Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Society
  • Challenge

• I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Think
  • More
  • Maybe

• In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Me
  • College
  • Crush

• On on-air debates: 'When I get into an argument on the air, the man can always yell louder, if a man fights like hell, he's being forceful; if I raise my voice and fight like hell, I'm being a shrew and a bitch.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Air

• 'Cause sometimes you feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Fall

• The laughter cameWhen the tears stopped falling.Now all I do is just call your name(When I say lover)You walked in and my heart discoveredThat my life would never be the same.Oh, you are my destiny.You are my one and only.You gave that joy to meWhen my whole life was lonely.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Joy

• To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Earth
  • Waiting
  • Sky

• Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God speaking to man.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • People
  • God

• Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Power
  • Church

• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Children
  • Book

• 'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Bad
  • Habit

• I was very, very surprised. I never thought I would be that loved or respected.

  

  Brian Wilson