Dean Devlin Quotes

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Dean Devlin

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• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Growth
  • Golf

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Disagreement

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hand

• By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Up
  • Time
  • Own

• I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Want
  • Man
  • Opinion

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Want
  • Past
  • Possibilities

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Bold

• Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

  

  Cory Doctorow

• God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  

  Avicenna
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • Growing

• Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • War
  • History
  • Struggle

• My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Time
  • Kids

• It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Defend
  • Accused
  • Acted

• As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

  

  Dean Devlin