Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
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An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
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A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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I'm the flavor of the month.
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The past has been exciting, the present extremely challenging. As for the future, it holds a lot of promise and many surprises. And I cannot wait to unravel them!
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.
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Let’s make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
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One can fall in love and still hate.
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
