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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• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• 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

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• 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

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 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

• We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

  

  Eric Lander
  • Human
  • Differences
  • Standup

• They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

  

  Dawn Ostroff
  • People
  • Different
  • Reality

• Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Nature
  • Future

• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  

  Michael Birch
  • Thinking
  • Games
  • Playing

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

  

  Dean Devlin