Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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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.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Chinese
  • Economy
  • Still

• 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.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Life
  • Why
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • True

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind

• Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Humanity
  • Green

• 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.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Job
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Sexy

• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I felt Facebook had a lot of what I appreciated about government - being around a collection of really bright, thoughtful people motivated to have a positive impact.

  

  Marne Levine
  • People
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not respecting what they're saying, if you're not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you're saying that they're lying.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Police

• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  

  Elihu Root
  • World
  • Real
  • Opinion

• A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

  

  John C. Mather
  • Hero
  • Achievement
  • Mentor

• When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Shopping

• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Time
  • God
  • Earth

• Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Value
  • Better
  • Sorry

• In 'Kinky Boots,' I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren's gutsiness and smarts. She's a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • She
  • Moments
  • Bold

• Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Stupid
  • Bats
  • Bites

• When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • Listening

• People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Stupid
  • Land