Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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I'm a gun owner.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
