Kevin Nealon Quotes

I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

Kevin Nealon

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• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Job
  • Game
  • Taken

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Women
  • Me
  • Inspire

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Talking

• It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Book
  • Finish
  • Almost

• I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Think
  • Play
  • Basketball

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Art
  • Sad
  • Popular

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Universe

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Different
  • Amazing

• What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Long
  • Country
  • Powerful

• When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Comedies

• Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

  

  John Updike
  • Life
  • Ignore

• I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Calm