Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.
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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm coming back as a cat or a tree or a molecule in my next life.
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You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
