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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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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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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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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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.
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What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
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But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
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The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.
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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
