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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. -- Pete Townshend
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. -- John Deacon
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me. -- Dolph Lundgren
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
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
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
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
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
People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. -- Brian Bosworth
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. -- Leonard Maltin
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. -- John Deacon
Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. -- Jerry Harrison
I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies. -- Lawrence Kasdan
I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight. -- Justin Guarini
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. -- Avi Arad
I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do. -- Estelle Parsons
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
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
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
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
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
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
I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney. -- Bob Hawke
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed. -- Mary Bell
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant. -- Danny Boyle
Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters -- Alvin Martin
If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein]. -- Paul McCartney
Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant. -- Joseph Finder
One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig. -- Vince Flynn
Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin. -- Bruce Johnston
When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire. -- Randy Matson
I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating! -- Kate Bush
If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin. -- Ray Bradbury
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache. -- Adam McKay
There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray. -- James Lipton
What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC. -- Cecily Strong
AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space. -- Sam Altman
Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage. -- Gordon R. Dickson
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. -- Demetri Martin
Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class. -- Cilla Black
Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks. -- Brittany Howard
Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third. -- Shane Warne
I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately. -- David Johansen
Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that -- Alan Green
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. -- Bruce Johnston
There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes. -- Kurt Browning
To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign, -- Justin Amash
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise -- John Cleese
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie -- Diana Gabaldon
He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon. -- Ron Atkinson
My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge. -- Tracy Morgan
I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.' -- Robert Englund
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas. -- Jon Brion
I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot. -- Neil Warnock
With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up. -- Shane Warne
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie -- Diana Gabaldon
She pulled away from Eric's grasp, knelt before Brian and looked up at him."Let me suck you off," she said. "Please. -- Olivia Cunning
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
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me. -- Marilyn Manson
[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody. -- Cassandra Peterson
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon. -- Bob Hawke
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
I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe. -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. -- Jodi Picoult
Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business. -- Peter Costello
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
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English. -- John Cleese
Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless. -- Mike Catt
The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno . -- David Bowie
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
I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH. -- Jim Lehrer
As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything. -- Alex J. Morrison
Iâ??d promised myself that Iâ??d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did. -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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
I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward. -- Paul Randall
There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein. -- Peter York
I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good. -- Norm MacDonald
When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too -- Nan Goldin
I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it workâ?¦ You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself. -- Anton Corbijn
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
To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world. -- Pete Townshend
Brian Epstein was like all people who turn out to be of interest, someone who was of interest to himself. I hear this a lot now. There's a feeling of I am different. -- Derek Taylor
-Hey. Do you know anything about exorcists?"Brian's eyebrows shot up"I think if you want to break up with Greyson, you could find a less dramatic way to do it, don't you? -- Stacia Kane
Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it. -- Alexis Taylor
See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you. -- Megan McCafferty
Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News. -- Bill Maher
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall. -- Dario Argento
I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me. -- Jonny Wilkinson
We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time. -- Bob McNair
I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not. -- Nia Long
I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll. -- Barack Obama
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. -- Henry Rollins
SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. -- Henry Rollins
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest. -- Steven Van Zandt
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
I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. -- Moby
When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen -- Homer
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard. -- Jeannette Walls
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book. -- Larry Heinemann
I was going to have Brian La Croix do a cameo on Degrassi. But, unfortunately, the scheduling didn't work out. When I was in Toronto, they weren't shooting. To me, that would've been a pretty crazy meta experience. -- Nick Kroll
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
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective. -- Mike Love
Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen. -- Richard Stanley
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
Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia ! -- Charles Shaar Murray
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right? -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions. -- Bob Hawke
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship. -- Billy Campbell
Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Honest to goodness, Brian Campbell, he was holding the Cup, and there was no one around for a minute. He says, 'Hold this for a second.' So he hands it to me - one of the best moments of my life. -- Mike Quigley
Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said. -- Diana Wynne Jones
When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn. -- David Cross
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow. -- Kevin Myers
The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada. -- Jim Lee

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