Brian Quotes - Page 7

• NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nbc, Six Months, Benefits

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Talking, Names, Two

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Interview with Cormorant, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

  Jon Landau

  Decision, Forever, Tape

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• The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.

  John C. Reilly

  Bars, Lasts, Remember

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• Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

  Nile Rodgers

  Song, Writing, Genius

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• Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Style, Skating

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• With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

  Shane Warne

  Wind, Cricket, Tendulkar

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• When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Educational, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Simple, Trying, Politician

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

  Gary Hoey

  Dream, Guitar, Careers

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• I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

  Drake Bell

  Beach, Queens, Boys

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

  Sam Altman

  Space, Pay, Happened

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• I don't get the regular AIDS test anymore. I get the roundabout AIDS test. I ask my friend Brian, "Do you know anybody who has AIDS?". He says, "No". I say, "Cool, because you know me."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Tests

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• Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.

  Jamie Foxx

  People, House, Tanks

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• Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

  Eddie Harris

  Play, Feelings, Looking Forward

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• The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nbc, Anchors, Competition

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• With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.

  Dave Franco

  Writing, Trying, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

  Jerry Harrison

  Taught Us, Use, Instruments

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• Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Running, Baby

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• Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

  Jon Brion

  Ideas, Position, Edges

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  Garik Israelian

  Careers, Doubt, May

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• I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

  Kurt Browning

  Country, Mean, Skating

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