Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
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If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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He was different at first But then he won't understand Because he's never gonna know me If he doesn't want to just shake my hand
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My travels have made clear that people across this state - from every political perspective - are looking for a new leader in Albany.
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
