Brian Quotes

• Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

  Dennis Wilson

  Running, Baby, Fighting

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• Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

  John Deacon

  Writing, Majority, Materials

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• My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

  Dennis Wilson

  Mom, Play, Guy

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• I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

  Justin Guarini

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• It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

  Pete Townshend

  Ordinary Days, Died, Knows

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• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Loss, Giving

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• I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

  Estelle Parsons

  Stuff, Stoke, Ifs

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• Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Squash, Skating

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• I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

  Matthew Sweet

  Birthday, Party, Dykes

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• As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Roles, Steps, Muhammad

  "The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2004.

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• I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

  Elvis Stojko

  Real, Way, Intense

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• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nbc, Anchors, Comic

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• My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Thinking, Decision, Feelings

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• I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.

  Megan Fox

  Sex, Boys, Years

  "Megan Fox's boy's libido". www.cosmopolitan.com. June 4, 2008.

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• I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Carrie

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• People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

  Brian Bosworth

  Two, People, Different

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• I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Gone, Olympics

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• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

  John Deacon

  Math, Sides, Students

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• Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

  Avi Arad

  People, Aviation, Comic

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Track, Records

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Cutting, Animal

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• Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

  Alan Judd

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

  Robert Kirkman

  Soul, Devil, Looks

  Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga (2011). “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor”, p.251, Macmillan

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