Bill Bryson Quotes
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.
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It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.
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I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
