Bill Bryson Quotes
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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E quel che non si sa non si de' dire,E tanto men, quando altri n'ha a patire.
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for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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YouTube is, at the end of the day, a search engine... that's why Google bought it.
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I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
