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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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.
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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
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What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
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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.
