Brian May Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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No one person is an island.
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I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
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Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
