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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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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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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More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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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.
