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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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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I want to run until I can't run.
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I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends.
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' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
