Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.
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One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
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I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
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We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
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It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.
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Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
