Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Ray Bradbury

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• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

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• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

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• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

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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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• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
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• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
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• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

  

  Gaines Adams
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• I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!

  

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• I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
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• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
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• It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
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• The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

  

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• When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

  

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• I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

  

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• Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

  

  Khalid
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• I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
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• Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

  

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• The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  

  Aaron Belz
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• I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

  

  Steve Martin
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• If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Stories