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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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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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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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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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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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.
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I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
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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.
