Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
