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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I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.
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The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.
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Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.
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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.