I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
RAY BRADBURYIt takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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All education is self-discovery.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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