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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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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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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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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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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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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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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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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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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The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.
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Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. … For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form-it may be called fleeting or eternal-is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.
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When you inject capital into the parent, it may or may not benefit the subsidiary.
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I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
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I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
