Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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Utendum est aetate: cito pede labitur aetas.
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Money never sleeps.
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.
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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East.
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[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
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I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
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The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.