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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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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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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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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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
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Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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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.
