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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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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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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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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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
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I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.
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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.
