Bill Bryson Quotes
We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
Quotes to Explore
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I take my work seriously.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.
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It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.
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Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.
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We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
