Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.
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And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.
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I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.
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Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'
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I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
