Bill Bryson Quotes
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
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I dont even think in terms of ambition.
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I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.
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I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
