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.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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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.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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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.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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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.
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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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.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.
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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.
