Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.Nell Scovell
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani -
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine -
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Tad Williams -
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
Barbara Boxer
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
Vincent Cassel -
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
Zhang Ziyi -
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
Harold Pinter -
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore -
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross -
The thing I like to do most is shop.
Madison Pettis
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Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
Jane Haddam -
There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
J. J. Watt -
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
Jane Byrne -
Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.
Brian Tracy -
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
S. E. Hinton -
I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
Nell Scovell