Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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There was a time in our very recent history when it was “interesting” to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized.
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I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
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This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm'd - see here it is -I hold it towards you.
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Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
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People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
