Bill Bryson Quotes
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
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My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
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It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
