Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
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It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.
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The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
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It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
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For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
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My mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I had to go to bed at 7.30 P.M., and when I'd ask why, she'd say, 'Well, you do get a bit grumpy when you don't have routines'. Then I realised, when I was a bit older, that's actually true.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.
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Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.
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Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby.
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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
