Freddie Mercury Quotes

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

Freddie Mercury Queen

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
  • Effort
  • Stand

• Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Action

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
  • In The Past

• At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Point
  • Coach

• I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Small
  • Working
  • Got

• The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Necessary

• The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Design

• In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • House
  • Car

• What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Needs
  • Knows

• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Husband
  • Right
  • Cooking

• I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Internet
  • Information
  • Generation

• I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Songs

• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Songs
  • Consumption
  • Discard