Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
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I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.
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I'm not a romantic.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.
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I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
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I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.
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Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
