Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.
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I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
