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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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
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There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.
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I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.
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Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
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Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.
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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.
