Daniel Bell Quotes

Where religions fail, cults appear.

Daniel Bell

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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Style
  • Woman

• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • History
  • Sick

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Force

• I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

  

  Barbara Park
  • World
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Different
  • Think
  • Career

• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Night

• The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Limits

• When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done

• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Time
  • War
  • Silly

• Stop beatin round the bush,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Stop

• When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Library
  • Kitchen

• '24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

  

  Alex Gibney

• If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Why

• I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up

• I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Character
  • American

• I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Great
  • Dark

• Where religions fail, cults appear.

  

  Daniel Bell