Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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This little bathtub smells like ass.24.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.
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First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
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Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
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I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.
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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
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You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
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Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
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I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
