Dean Devlin Quotes

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

Dean Devlin

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Power
  • Political
  • Government

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Fresh

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Care
  • Nothing
  • Loyalty

• Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Different
  • Practice

• Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Money

• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • Favourite
  • Postal

• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Want
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Men
  • Color
  • Treat

• We should not let the enemies interfere in the Islamic countries relations including Iran and Saudi Arabia.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Islamic

• I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa

• It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sleep
  • Listening
  • Dog

• For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Life
  • Win

• I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

  

  Dean Devlin