Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
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Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
