Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
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I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
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A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.'
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Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
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What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
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During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
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The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.
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The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
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We need a presidency which acts and protects us.
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The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
