Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
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The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
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The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.
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It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
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It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.
