Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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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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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
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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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Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.
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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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But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.
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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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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
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I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
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I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.
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It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
