Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.
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I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
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I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered; who am I to say no? I'm definitely working class, and I always will be.
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You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.
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One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
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When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
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To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
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We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.
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As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
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You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
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I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.
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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
