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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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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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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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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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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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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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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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.
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Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
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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.
