Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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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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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
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The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
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I like to have fun, I'm silly, and I keep the mood light.
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Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
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The Reagan tax reform delivered real fairness, closing loopholes for Washington special interests so that all Americans could keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.
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I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
