Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
Gary Cole
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
Barry Pepper
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
Vikram Patel
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
Zach Anner
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
Harold MacMillan
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
Valentino Rossi
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
Ted Baillieu
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
Ralph Kiner
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Karen Armstrong
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
W. Somerset Maugham
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El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Antonio Porchia
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
Jim Fowler
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This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tones, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.
Jakaya Kikwete
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
Immanuel Kant
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People who love what they do get after it every day.
Lynn Good
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God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker
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My business is to prevent the future.
Ray Bradbury