Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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Che non pur per cittadi e per castella,Ma per tuguri ancora e per feniliSpesso si trovan gli uomini gentili.
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We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.
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Never make a major decision based solely on money.
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You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
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I'm kind of proud of being a love child.
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Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
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Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.
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I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.
