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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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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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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.
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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
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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.
