Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
Sam Graves
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski
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I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
Natasha Lyonne
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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
J. C. Watts
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
Bernice King
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I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'
Colman Domingo
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
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The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
Jesse Ventura
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The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
Eli Broad
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At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
Anjelica Huston
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When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.
Bishop Briggs
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Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.
Daniel Levitin
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
Neil MacGregor
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In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Boris Spassky
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I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.
Larry Burns
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I'd say for us, obviously we have a long way to go. We're going to have to go home. We've got a lot of work to do.
Joe Gibbs
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Each act of imagination, each moment of creative life stands up to the entire material universe and affirms the reality of meaning against the corroding solvents of entropy, dark matter, or whatever else may be dragging the physical world into oblivion.
Gary Lachman Blondie
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Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.
Stuart Wilde
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But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
Ray Bradbury