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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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer 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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Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.
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Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.
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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.
