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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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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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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Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
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Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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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.
