Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Ray Bradbury
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
Facundo Pieres
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
Gabrielle Union
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
Salman Rushdie
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
Lana Turner
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
Rafael Vinoly
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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
Carlos Fuentes
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I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
Jacki Weaver
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
Brown Campbell
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Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.
Sam Cooke
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He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.
Amitabh Bachchan
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.
Albert Camus
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Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.
Matt Taibbi
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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
David Rubenstein
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Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.
Ted Dekker
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I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.
Kathryn Harrison
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Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
Astro Teller
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Ray Bradbury
