Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury

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• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Future
  • Teacher
  • Test

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, and possibilities that transport both reader and writer away from reality for a while - it's such delicious fun!

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Reality

• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Free

• I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Insurance

• I love to sing 'Stay' every night... because people sing along. And they do sing along - loudly!

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Night

• As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Character

• I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sex

• If I'm watching 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,' there's a part of that that's just escapism. I'm not watching it with a political lens, but there is a part of me that certain things trigger and pull up, where I'm like, 'Oh, that was really problematic.'

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Real
  • Political

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Greatest

• Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • History
  • Feeling

• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  

  Bubba Sparxxx
  • Country
  • America
  • City

• I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Pay