Brian May Quotes
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
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I really think there are many great organizations out there getting the word out about LGBT youth and bullying, but GLAAD has this way of making sure the stories about gay people are sent out and heard and not covered up, and I like that.
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The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.
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When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
