Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I love to push myself.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
