Bernard Iddings Bell Quotes
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I get homesick.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.
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I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
