Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

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• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
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• I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
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• Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Long
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• I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Play

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Real
  • Parents

• The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Family
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• If God is as real as the shadow of the Great War on Armistice Day, need we seek further reason for making a place for God in our thoughts and lives? We shall not be concerned if the scientific explorer reports that he is perfectly satisfied that he has got to the bottom of things without having come across either.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Great
  • God
  • Real

• I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.

  

  Livy
  • World
  • Long
  • Eyes

• In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Real
  • Question
  • Funeral

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Science

• Every time I go out to do shows, it just becomes a little bit more real and a little bit more full, so I'm excited just to see it hit its next level.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Time
  • Real

• Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

  

  David Gross
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Important
  • Real

• I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

  

  Charles S. Dutton
  • Money

• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Follow
  • Mendacities
  • Animalisms

• During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Earth

• I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

  

  Verite
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Pay

• There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Period

• We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Long
  • Real