Bill Bryson Quotes
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
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We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
