Bill Bryson Quotes
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.
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Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
