Brian Wilson Quotes
You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
Quotes to Explore
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
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Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
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You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
