Bill Bryson Quotes
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
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I don't really do stand-up.
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I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.
