Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's unfair to call Israel an apartheid state. If Kerry did so, I think he made a mistake.
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I love the spy genre.
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No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.
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Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
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The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
