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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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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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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Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
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To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
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We have a good relationship, but she is completely different than me. My sister, she is not sporty at all.
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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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.
