Bill Bryson Quotes
It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
Quotes to Explore
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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We can't stop people from thinking what they want to.
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To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.
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Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
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It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
