Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
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As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.
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I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
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History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
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I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
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I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.
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I was never the person who came up with a boom somehow. I worked slowly and consistently, making my way up the rankings, so there wasn't one special moment.
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I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.
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I love thigh highs, heels, shorts, or a skirt.
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To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
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I was worried that my voice would struggle with talking nonstop every night, but it's been fine.
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I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.
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It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
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You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
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With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
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I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
