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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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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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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The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
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The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
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One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.
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Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.
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My head has got regrets, but I haven't.
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After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.
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Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
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You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
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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.
