Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
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I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
Fidel Castro
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Edi Rama
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
J. K. Simmons
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
Gary Johnson
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'
J. C. Watts
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
Irvine Welsh
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
Earl Warren
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In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.
Bill Bryson
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
Forest Whitaker
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I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.
Ray Bradbury