Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

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• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

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• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

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• I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

  

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• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
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• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

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• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  

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• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

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• And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

  

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• And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?

  

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• Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

  

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• I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now.

  

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• When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

  

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• One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

  

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• Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.

  

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• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  

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• for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

  

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• One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

  

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• In the practice called free writing, you can use any object as your own personal Rorschach test for entering a stream of associations. Simply write the first thing that comes to your mind as you look at the object in front of you and then keep going without stopping, rereading, or crossing out.

  

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• When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Long
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  • Trying