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
  • Husband
  • Child

• 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

• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  

  Wilfrid
  • Always
  • Humans
  • Certain

• I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Laugh
  • Hearing
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• I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Teacher
  • Devil

• Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Difficult
  • Album
  • Month

• A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Human
  • Communication
  • Disconnected

• 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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