Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.
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Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the '90s. It's like, 'Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky's the limit with what you can do?'
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When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.
