Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
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I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.
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The course of business shapes public opinion.
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What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
