Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.
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Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'
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A lot of companies are global.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
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Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!
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A library is all the university you will ever need.
