Dean Devlin Quotes
In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
Quotes to Explore
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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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.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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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.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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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.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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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.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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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.
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Growing up, I've always felt I was God's favoured child. Circumstances to help me just happen.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.
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In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
