Richard M. DeVos Quotes
I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.
