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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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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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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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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I actually was a good student, but I never applied myself 'cause I was always like, 'I don't love doing this.' I wasn't passionate about school. I always got a B just to pass. But what's crazy is I got a 29 on my ACT test without even studying. So I was always, like, just smart - but never really cared.
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I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.
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All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
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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.
