Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
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In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
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That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
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Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.
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It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.
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Herodotus says, 'Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.'
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I collect rings from every country that I compete in, and I swap them around and wear different ones occasionally. I have about 10.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.
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London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.
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I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
