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.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
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• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
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  • Data

• For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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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.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Living
  • Rise

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
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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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
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• Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

  

  Sam Elliott
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• Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

  

  Lord Byron

• Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • America

• 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.

  

  Mark Ronson
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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.

  

  Franklin Foer
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• I love dark chocolate. I love it.

  

  Emma Roberts
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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.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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• I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

  

  Craig Roberts

• It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
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• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
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• There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
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• I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of - it was the other creatures of the night.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Night
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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.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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