Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
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Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.
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There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.
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I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.
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I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.
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I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. So I need someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
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One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
