Brian Wilson
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MARK WALTERS KURT VONNEGUT I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you ... MARK ZUPAN DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was ... ERIKA SLEZAK J. COLE In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me... CALVIN HARRIS HOLLY HUNTER POST MALONE It's one of those roles where you realize why you got into theatre and without sounding too proud, i... CHAD KIMBALL ROBIN YOUNT I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the l... RIZ AHMED If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ... GURINDER CHADHA Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for ... KAILASH KHER ISAAC HAYES I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like C... NIGEL KENNEDY I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he'... PHOEBE TONKIN ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER DAVID OGDEN STIERS When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of... VALERIE JUNE i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL JENNIFER LOPEZ My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX JOHN LEGEND HENRY ROLLINS DAVID GILMOUR MEGAN FOX JOHN LYDON HOLLY HUNTER I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there&#... RACHEL KELLER DOUGLAS ADAMS I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... 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Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t... BRIAN WILSON I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've... BRIAN WILSON Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having... BRIAN WILSON The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving m... BRIAN WILSON The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of t... BRIAN WILSON It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The... BRIAN WILSON I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a ... BRIAN WILSON I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they pla... BRIAN WILSON I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey. BRIAN WILSON You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in ou... BRIAN WILSON To be a great producer, music has to be a big part of your soul. And when it comes to making music, ... BRIAN WILSON The eternal now, right? BRIAN WILSON Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever. BRIAN WILSON None of these kids have ever seen snow or been on a frozen pond, so everything is a first for them. ... BRIAN WILSON Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant wh... BRIAN WILSON We actually have more clear sunny days in mid-Oregon than they do in Southern Florida. BRIAN WILSON Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector, BRIAN WILSON I'm blessed with everything.A world to which a man can cling.So happy at times that I break out in t... BRIAN WILSON My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant w... BRIAN WILSON Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I kn... BRIAN WILSON Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they ar... BRIAN WILSON Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rha... BRIAN WILSON You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough... BRIAN WILSON I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing hi... BRIAN WILSON intensely partisan Democratic district attorney. BRIAN WILSON My state of being has been elevated, because I've been exercising, writing songs. I'm in a better fr... BRIAN WILSON I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes ... BRIAN WILSON My skills are musical, not lyrical. BRIAN WILSON I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just th... BRIAN WILSON My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figure... BRIAN WILSON What in the world is a hangover cure? BRIAN WILSON it doesn't look like that is going to happen by anything we've heard thus far. BRIAN WILSON Megan is our new coach for the beginner program of the Piranhas, and she did a great job. This was o... BRIAN WILSON I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music. BRIAN WILSON I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not... BRIAN WILSON The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. BRIAN WILSON My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that mea... BRIAN WILSON About a year ago I had what I consider a very religious experience. I took LSD, a full dose of LSD, ... BRIAN WILSON I'm blessed with everything.BRIAN WILSON For me, making music has always been a very spiritual thing, and I think anybody who produces record... BRIAN WILSON You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can&#... BRIAN WILSON If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better... BRIAN WILSON Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree. BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie, BRIAN A Nationalist is a defeated Republican. BRIAN AUGUST WILSON I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're... CHANDRA WILSON RUSSELL WILSON AUGUST WILSON I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. RAINN WILSON You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic. SLOAN WILSON I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea... TAYLOR WILSON I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overse... RAINN WILSON I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that... RAINN WILSON The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is t... RAINN WILSON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. RAINN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking... RAINN WILSON I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to... RAINN WILSON Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. RAINN WILSON I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. RAINN WILSON I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read b... RAINN WILSON I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm hap... RAINN WILSON I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character ... RAINN WILSON And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to ... RAINN WILSON There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And th... RAINN WILSON Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then ju... RAINN WILSON I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talkin... RAINN WILSON Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why ... RAINN WILSON Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. RAINN WILSON My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet. RAINN WILSON The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sac... RAINN WILSON Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. RAINN WILSON There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite... RAINN WILSON Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. RAINN WILSON The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the wor... RAINN WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start. HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep... HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics. HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power. HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle. HAROLD WILSON EARL WILSON WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WILSON MIZNER WOODROW WILSON Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and rout... 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