Bill Bryson Quotes
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.
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What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.
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People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.
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You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.
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In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'
