Brian May Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.
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Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
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The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.
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People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
