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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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Beware of analogies: for millenia they corrupted medicine, and it may be their fault that today's pedagogical systems are so numerous, and after three thousand years of argument we still don't know which is best.
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New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
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We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.
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I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.
