Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.Ray Bradbury
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
Tariq Ramadan -
Truth is the best defense.
Ward Churchill -
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
Octavia Spencer -
I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
Jacki Weaver -
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland -
We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
Frances McDormand
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
Yitzhak Shamir -
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Adam Driver -
Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.
Joe Gibbs -
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
Alan Rickman -
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf -
Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
Oprah Winfrey
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
Amy Poehler -
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
Antonio Damasio -
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
Apolo Ohno -
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
Vissarion Belinsky -
The Court of Appeals is more appropriate from a mechanical standpoint.
Bob Herbold -
When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
Etta James
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My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
Jennifer Garner -
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
Ray Bradbury