Richard M. DeVos Quotes
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
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If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
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People always like people, you know?
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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We need to have strong growth, fair growth, sustained growth. We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.
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I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.
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If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.
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Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.
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There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.
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I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.
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Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.
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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
