Dean Devlin Quotes
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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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.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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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.
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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.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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I don't use Twitter for bad.
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The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.
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I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
