Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

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• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

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• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
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• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

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• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
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• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
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• Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
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• I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fan
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• If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

  

  David Cross
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• I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Country
  • College
  • Driving

• So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • School
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• We do not have a racial crisis; we have an ideology crisis. We have socialists, Marxists, and liberals who have hijacked my race.

  

  Burgess Owens

• Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

  

  John McCarthy
  • People

• Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Age
  • College
  • Library