Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
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I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
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Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.
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The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
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I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
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Some intentional communities, like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.
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I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
