Bill Bryson Quotes
As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: 'In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.' To which adds Guth: 'Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts.'
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Life is like an analogy.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: 'In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.' To which adds Guth: 'Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts.'
