Richard M. DeVos Quotes
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
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Good evening, daddy I know you’ve heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.
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Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
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I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.
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If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
