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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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.
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I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish version. I watched the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' and I watched the Jessica Biel version and watched Jessica's performance.
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You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
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I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?
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I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I've been doing dramas for a long time.
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The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.
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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.
