Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
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Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
