Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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There's a role for the Mac as far as our eye can see. A role in conjunction with smartphones and tablets that allows you to make the choice of what you want to use. Our view is, the Mac keeps going forever, because the differences it brings are really valuable.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
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It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.
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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
