Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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We say that this fake regime (Zionist) cannot logically continue to live. (April 24, 2006) 12
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In mura, in tetti, in pavimenti sparteEran le perle, eran le ricche gemme.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
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If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.
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If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.
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I don't take time off.
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I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.
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Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
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We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
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They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
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For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
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When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
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Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.
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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
