Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I can do whatever I want.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
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I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
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As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.
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We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
