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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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'
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There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.
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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.
