Bill Bryson Quotes

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Change
  • Most

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Financial
  • Competition

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  

  Iain Banks
  • World
  • Years
  • Club

• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Wise

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • World
  • Hope
  • English

• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • World
  • Model
  • Acting

• Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • People
  • World
  • Place

• No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Life
  • World
  • Conscience

• I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • World
  • Different
  • Universe

• I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Understanding

• When I moved to L.A. in my early twenties, I was growing my hair. Then, when I was 25, I cut it off and was like, 'Oh no, I think I'm a long hair person until I go bald!'

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Long
  • Growing
  • Hair

• Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • World