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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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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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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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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...stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
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You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
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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.
