Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
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I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
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The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.
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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
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I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.
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The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
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I definitely think if you're born into the industry, you get easier access, but that's about it. I have never denied that, but after that, only talent and hard work sustains you.
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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.