Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.
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That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.