Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.

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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Myself

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Lazy
  • Negroes

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Team
  • Smart
  • End

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Woman
  • Planet
  • Sexiest

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Kind

• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reading

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

  

  David Ulevitch
  • Control
  • Search

• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Pity
  • Reform

• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We are excited about the opportunity and look forward to serving all the people in Orangeburg and Orangeburg County with great service and a great automobile, ... We like it (Orangeburg) because it is not too far from Augusta. We enjoy doing business in South Carolina.

  

  Bob Richards
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • People
  • Long
  • Funny