Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.
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I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.
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You have to be the first, best or different.
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I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.
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We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
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Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
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I'm too competitive to get that big of a head.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
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As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.
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Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized “cargo”: “It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although they are living things they are as good as gold.” Columbus gave permission to his crew who remained in Hispaniola to enslave the native Taino people “in the amount desired.” Columbus awarded a teenage Taino girl to one of his crew, Miguel Cuneo, for use as his sex slave. Cuneo bragged that when she “resisted with all her strength,” he “thrashed her mercilessly and raped her.” Columbus bestowed this kind of “employee benefit” on many of his men, writing to a friend about large numbers of “dealers” who specialized in supplying young girls to the so-called Christians, adding, “those from nine to ten [years old] are now in demand.
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Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
