Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Ray Bradbury

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Political
  • Science

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
  • Get

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Made
  • Nothing

• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • True
  • Me
  • Single

• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Child
  • Deserve

• 'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Path

• Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Control

• If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • Work

• I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Food
  • Sweet

• The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Women
  • Health
  • Pain

• You troll me, I'm going to troll you.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins

• I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

  

  Alan Gerry
  • Great

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Happiness

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin

• Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • People
  • Business
  • Small

• You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Effort
  • Happiness
  • Miserable