Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twentyAnd oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
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Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
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I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
