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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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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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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To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the book sounds very phonic: that it sounds like me speaking. And I don't think it's a coincidence that there are six to ten passages that I cadged from various interviews that I did post-'Reality Hunger'.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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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!?
