Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I like heels and make-up.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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You cannot run faster than a bullet.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
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Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.
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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
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It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
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The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
