Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.
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In India, we have a concept of caste. It has a concept of escape velocity. If one belongs to a backward caste and wants to attain success then one needs an escape velocity to attain that success. Dalits in this country need the escape velocity of Jupiter to attain success.
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
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I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
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I want to be appreciated, to be loved, to feel wanted.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.
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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
