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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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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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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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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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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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.
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Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
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I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
