Bill Bryson Quotes
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Quotes to Explore
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
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Netflix is very protective with their information.
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I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
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I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.
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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
