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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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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When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.
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The evil that we know is best.
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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Good to evil seems evil
