Brian Wilson Quotes
We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.
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My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
