Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.
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He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
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O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
