Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.
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If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
