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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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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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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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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For days I have seen nothing but the most awful scenes that the human mind can imagine.. .Stay calm and don't worry: I will come back to you – the war will end this year. I must stop; the transport of the wounded, which will take this letter along, is leaving. Stay well and calm as I do. from the battlefield at Verdun
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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
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You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
