Bill Bryson Quotes
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.Bill Bryson
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen -
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Aaron Lazar -
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten -
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey -
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
Pankaj Mishra
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
Edi Rama -
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
Patricia Heaton -
I don't eat any red meat.
Taylor Momsen -
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
Jaan Tallinn -
I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
Tahar Rahim -
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury -
The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
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I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
Stephen LaBerge -
If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.
Yoko Ono -
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
Pope Benedict XVI -
When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.
Tara Leigh Patrick -
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bill Bryson