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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Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.
Edwin Markham -
When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
Jeff Foxworthy -
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
Dennis Hopper -
It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
Dalai Lama -
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bill Bryson