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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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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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 am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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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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In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
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If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.
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One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
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Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.
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When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.
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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.
