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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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
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Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
