Brian Wilson Quotes
I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My mom was the strongest woman I know.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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Madness has no sense of humour.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
