Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
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I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
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The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.
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I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'
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I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
