Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!
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The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
