Drake Bell Quotes

I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

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• I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  

  Harland Williams
  • American
  • Pride
  • Citizen

• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Way
  • General
  • Microscope

• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • You
  • Church
  • New

• I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • America
  • Think

• Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Expressing

• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Reading

• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Freedom
  • Marriage
  • Defense

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mind
  • Weakness
  • Fault

• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Loved
  • Rejection
  • Believing

• Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in settlement risk tied up in that time. That all goes away in a blockchain system because you've reunited the trade with the settlement. They're not two separate processes.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Process

• What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Flower
  • Latin
  • Bold

• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Always
  • Better

• Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Responsibility

• Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • People
  • Good
  • Sorry

• I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.

  

  Jessica Hagedorn
  • American
  • Latin

• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wings
  • Purple
  • Evening

• I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

  

  Drake Bell