Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.
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I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
