Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.
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I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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Y seguiré eliminando las palabras malas que puse en mi todo, aunque mi todo se quede sin palabras.
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For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
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Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?
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If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
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My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
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You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.
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I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.
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There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.
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I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
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The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
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Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.
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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
