Richard M. DeVos Quotes

Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!

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• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Change
  • Choice

• In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Control
  • Teacher

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Light
  • Democracy

• As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• 'Night' may be one of the most important books that people can read today. It is a story of how hate can slowly take over a society. It shows what happens when people are dehumanized.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • American

• Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • People

• If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Want
  • Care

• It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Stop

• What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.

  

  Matthew Heineman
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• Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • People
  • Encourage
  • Stimulate