Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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I put it a still life of a pear, made by Manet there on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter', for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
