Lake Bell Quotes

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

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• Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
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• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
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  • Media

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
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• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
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• I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Long
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• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
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• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
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• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Done
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• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
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• When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • School
  • High
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• I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • King

• When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Experience
  • War
  • Period

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad