Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century's end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent. European Man seems destined to end like the 10 lost tribes of Israel-overrun, assimilated and disappeared.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.
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Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
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It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
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Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't sound as real as they can be. They're not as sharp a cheddar cheese as they can be. And I'm trying to be the sharpest cheddar I can be.
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No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.
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How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.
