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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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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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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I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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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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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
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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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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what's validating to me. It's a great feeling to know you can trust your gut.
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
