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'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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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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But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
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You must be prepared to work always without applause.
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My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.
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In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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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.
