Jillian Bell Quotes
I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.
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Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.
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Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
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I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.
