Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.
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Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.
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If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
