Bill Bryson Quotes
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
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I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.
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Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
