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.

Ray Bradbury

• Book
• Light
• Lying
• Library
• Drink
• Pool

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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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• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

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• When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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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've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

  

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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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• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  

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• To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

  

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• There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

  

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• Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

  

  Chandravadan Mehta
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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.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Light
  • Lying