Brian May Quotes
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
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No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
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First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
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Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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Usually, when people are asked, 'Would you ever do high school again?' a good 99 percent of them say, 'Oh God, no. I would never do that again.' I would absolutely go back to high school.
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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
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You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
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In the silence, hear what can't be heard.
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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
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Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
