Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
