Dean Devlin Quotes
We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
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I feel great. I’m right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I’ve had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.
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I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.
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We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.
