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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My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
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I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
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I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
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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!
