Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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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.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
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If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.
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The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
