Tom Bissell Quotes

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

Tom Bissell

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Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

Jill Lepore

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Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Joel Osteen

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Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

Andrew Weil

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Actually, I'd really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

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Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

Robert E. Howard

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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Lou Reed

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I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking.

Diane Kruger

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You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

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One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

Art Linkletter

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Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

Prince Harry

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