Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!
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For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.
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Every moment markedWith apparitions of your soul.I'm ever swiftly movingTrying to escape this desire.
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A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they're doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they're done, the models don't have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really.
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I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
