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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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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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
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Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
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What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
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Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.
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I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.