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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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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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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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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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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Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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Before you, love, I was lost, drifting at sea. You were the beacon I followed home. You were the one who rescued me.
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These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.
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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.
