Lake Bell Quotes

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Why
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Truck
  • Seeing

• Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Live
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • War
  • Cold
  • End

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Planning
  • Plan

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Years
  • Thought

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hockey
  • Canada
  • Ice

• Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  

  Max Ernst
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Painting

• The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • Past

• Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

  

  Alan King
  • Business
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • World

• When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Christmas
  • Gifts