Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
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May books spread the world over!
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
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If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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My biggest enemy is typically me.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.
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But the form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
