Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
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I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle -And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.
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I've always been into looking different.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
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I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
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The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.
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A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
