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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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 will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.
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We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.
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The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes. I definitely think Parliament's website can be improved - perhaps it could have better access to video feed, include interactive features or have discussion forums.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
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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.
