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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If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
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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!
