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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On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
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As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for other people. At some point, you learn how to be on the other side of that table. You write, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.
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You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
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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.
