Bill Bryson Quotes
'Tell me, did they specify ’asshole’ on the job description, or did you take a course?'
Bill Bryson
Quotes to Explore
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
A. S. Byatt
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
M.I.A.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
FKA twigs
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Nate Silver
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When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job.
Alex Guarnaschelli
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My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
Jim Davis
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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
Daniel Bryan
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'Tell me, did they specify ’asshole’ on the job description, or did you take a course?'
Bill Bryson