Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
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I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
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Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention.
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I love dark chocolate. I love it.
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I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.
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I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
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A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
