Dean Devlin Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
