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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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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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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Conservatives are very upset at the idea of a single-mom family. But they do their best to create a lot of them by sending American men off to war to be killed.
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The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.
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I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.
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God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
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Good God, what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed. Oh Liberty! What horrors are committed in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!
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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.
