Brian May Quotes
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.
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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
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Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.
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Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
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Mantovani was a great influence on me.
