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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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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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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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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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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I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.
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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 actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
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Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
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I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.
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It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.
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So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
