Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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I love girl power.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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There are three levels of self to consider: the proto, the core, and the autobiographical. The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species.
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Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
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No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.
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One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.
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If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
