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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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
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I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.
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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.
