Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Form follows beauty.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.
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The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
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The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
