Bill Bryson Quotes
I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
Quotes to Explore
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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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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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Every man is his own hell.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
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I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
