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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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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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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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
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False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
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Part of the mystique of shows like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It's not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything's a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.
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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.
