Brian May Quotes

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

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• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Fear
  • Face
  • Just

• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eye
  • Train

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Free
  • Language
  • Speak

• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  

  George Carlin
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Lost

• I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Culture
  • Singing
  • Sorry

• I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Pretty
  • Football
  • Fans

• Dogs are nicer than people.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Dog

• I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • American
  • President
  • Dead

• I’ve found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Child
  • Husband

• The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Game
  • Government
  • Presidential

• I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Happens
  • Because
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• If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures such as the expectations of others or by our habits such as procrastination or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Learn
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

  

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