Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
