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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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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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 turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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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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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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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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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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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 get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
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One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.
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A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
