Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
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Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.