Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I like soundtracks and I like film.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
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My destructive side has grown a mile wideand I question myself again: what is it about men?
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
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Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
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Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
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I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
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I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.
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Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
