Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.
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How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
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Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.
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Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
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Any more would have been less.
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The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.
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It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
