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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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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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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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
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You have to ration your opponents' victories. You have to mete them out, slowly and meanly. You have to make your opponents subliminally grateful for every little bit of compliance. That way you get away with giving up ten small losses a day, rather than ten big ones.
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Words are but empty thanks.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
