Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
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One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.
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Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.
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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
