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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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
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Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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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!
