Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
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I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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I will miss the association with the players and coaches. It has been a great ride.
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
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The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to perform it. It just kind of became therapy for me. I had just gotten through a break-up and I was talking about it a lot.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
