Brian Wilson Quotes
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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My parents have always been very open.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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I love the French horn.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
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I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.
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I don't understand choreographers who say they don't care about the audience or that they would be happy to present their works non-publicly. I think dance is a form of communication and the goal is to dialogue with the audience. If an audience member tells me they cried or that the dance moved them to think about their own journey or a family member's, then the work is successful.
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I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.
