Bill Bryson Quotes
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
Bill Bryson
Quotes to Explore
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
Narendra Modi
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
Kassie DePaiva
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Maddie Ziegler
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
E. Joseph Cossman
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
Madison Marlow
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Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.
Lauren Jauregui
Fifth Harmony
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For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure.
Eduardo Risso
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The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.
Bobby Cannavale
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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
Bill Bryson
