Richard M. DeVos Quotes
I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
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One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.
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Back when I was growing up, if I loved a song, I would record it off of the radio so I could hear them as many times as I wanted.
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I loved fairy tales growing up.
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My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
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I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.
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I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
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Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
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When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.
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I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.
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As tastes shift around the globe and there are more roles for women, there are more women who can participate. Salaries will go up and be commensurate.
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Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
