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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How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
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A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Good to evil seems evil
