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.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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.
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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.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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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.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
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In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.
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Acting has always been such escapism for me.
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
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As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
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I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.
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It was a great quarter by any measure. We did not have significant one-time effects as we did throughout the year last year.
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In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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My business is to prevent the future.
