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.
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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.
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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.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
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When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
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It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
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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.
