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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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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'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.
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And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
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We have taken steps which have not been taken by any other democratic government in the world. We are taking steps with regard to prices and wages which no other government, even in wartime, has taken.
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I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
