Clive Bell Quotes

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Experience by itself is not science.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Itself

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Gravity

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • First
  • Celebrity
  • Crush

• My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Good
  • Age
  • Parents

• When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Soul

• If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can't. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary time and effort.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Goal
  • Secret
  • Lucky

• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Father
  • Age
  • Cool

• Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

  

  Clive Bell
  • Age