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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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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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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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.
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You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
