Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
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Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.
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In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.
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I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
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If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.
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I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
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If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say is, 'Thank you,' because they've made me who I am. As much as I say 'trauma,' it all comes from a place of love. The fact that I am feeling emotions at all based on a work is a wonderful thing, so I'm happy to be a part of that discussion.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
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We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.
