Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that responds to my highest aspiration.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
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How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.
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Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
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There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.
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In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
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Plutôt souffrir que mourir,C'est la devise des hommes.
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Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.
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Good to evil seems evil
