Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
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I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.
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A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.
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Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.
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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
