Bill Bryson Quotes
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
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In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.
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It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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I always had an interest in telling stories.
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Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
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Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.
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A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
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You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
