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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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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I can't work without my family being with me.
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In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
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I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified
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I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.
