Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.
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Play me no plays.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
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I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
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Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
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Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
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I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
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The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.