Bill Bryson Quotes
I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one.' 'It certainly is basic.' 'Basic? It's a bloody cell!
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.
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Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln
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I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.
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All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.
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Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.
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People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
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I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one.' 'It certainly is basic.' 'Basic? It's a bloody cell!
