Brian Wilson Quotes
I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."
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What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
