Brian May Quotes
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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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I don't understand women who don't encourage each other. I think compliments and showing affection are really important, too. Women don't do that enough, and it's so essential because even if you're shy about giving a compliment, it's good energy; it's uplifting.
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Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
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When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.
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The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.
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People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
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From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
