Bryson Tiller Quotes
My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.
Quotes to Explore
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
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I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.
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This is the first time in my lifetime that a president has been from a city. From a place I would go. He's from Chicago; I love Chicago! I go there! Would I ever go to Wasilla, Alaska? Or Hope, Arkansas? Or Plains, Georgia? Or Crawford, Texas? Not on a bet! There's a reason small towns are small: no one wants to live there.
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It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.
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My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.
