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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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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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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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
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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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It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.
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I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.
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Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.
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Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.
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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.
