Bernard Iddings Bell Quotes
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
