Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
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According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always Lennox should react, not think. But thats nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
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I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too.
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We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
