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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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
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Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
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All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
