Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
