Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.
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Who the fuck is this? Pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning. Crack of dawnin'. Now I'm yawnin', wipe the cold out my eye. See who's this pagin' me, and why?
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A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
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My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
