Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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I enjoyed being anonymous.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
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I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'
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I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
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Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.
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I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.
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I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
