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 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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Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
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Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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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.
