E. T. Bell Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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There are folks who we have a moral responsibility to help, who are going to cost the taxpayers lots of money in the future, so there's a strong argument for us to help them with current cash.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
