Bill Bryson Quotes
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I still believe I have a lot of liberal thoughts, but I also believe when you work hard, you shouldn't be penalized and pay more because you work hard.
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Animals interest me more than anything else.
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Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.
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Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
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I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.
