Dean Devlin Quotes

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

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• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Me
  • Boxing
  • Early

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Nature
  • Strong
  • Girl

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Real
  • Me
  • Mom

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Age
  • Dating

• The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Power
  • First
  • Contract

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Questions

• They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Trump

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake

• Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Control
  • Angry
  • Crying

• With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy