Lake Bell Quotes

Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Think
  • Culture

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Trying
  • Best
  • Elephant

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• I tend to stay away from the comics.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Away
  • Stay
  • Tend

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Color

• When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Die