Dean Devlin Quotes

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

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• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

  

  Pat Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Vegas

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • People
  • Money

• I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Up
  • Team
  • Red

• Global companies can raise capital much easier than local Indian companies can because they have access to many more markets than we do, and this ends up distorting competition.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Competition

• What’s happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

  

  Stuart W. Bowen, Jr
  • Attack
  • Output
  • Insurgency

• In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

  

  Dean Devlin
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  • Hope