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 played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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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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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
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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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Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
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Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets. We [Migos] talking about how many snakes there are in the grass and talking about how people can hurt you, and talking about how that can help you gain knowledge.
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I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
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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.
