Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.
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Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.
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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
