Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

Ray Bradbury

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
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• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
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• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
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• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
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• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
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• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
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• I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Silly

• I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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• A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

  

  Varley O'Connor
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• The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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• All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
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  • Public

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
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• A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.

  

  Charlie Shrem
  • People
  • Great
  • Smart

• I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • People
  • Believe
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• The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Writing
  • Worry