Bill Bryson Quotes
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.

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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Being evil is easy.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.