Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Hunter Thompson wasn't Joseph Conrad, Jimmy Carter wasn't Harry Trueman. But strangely, Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon. I'm no Pablo Picasso but there's no harm in straining. After all, the charm of any activity is in the trying and so rarely in the finished article.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
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I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
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Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.
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It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
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Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
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Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
