Brian Wilson Quotes

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Chance
  • Journalism
  • Upside

• I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Democracy

• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Alone

• 'I learned a great deal,' said Beran. 'And then I lost all heart for further learning.'Palafox’s eyes glinted. 'Education is not achieved through the heart-it is a systematization of the mental processes.''But I am something other than a mental process,' said Beran. 'I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Education

• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Crush

• …all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Trying

• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  

  John Spratt
  • American
  • Hope
  • Alone

• God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

  

  Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Half

• I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.

  

  Steve Martin
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Principles

• I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Better
  • I Believe

• I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

  

  Brian Wilson