Richard M. DeVos Quotes

If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.

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• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Idea
  • Vague

• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Day

• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Morning

• I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Hair

• The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Action

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Meditation

• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • World
  • Me
  • Magic

• If the dangers of racism are apparent, even in a non-violent form, then it was the same for Islamism. Communalist identity politics, self-segregation and group-think are far more damaging to societies in the long run than the odd bomb going off here or there, because it is such a milieu that keeps breeding bomb-makers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Long
  • Identity
  • Racism

• Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Painting

• I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Law

• With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Character
  • Words
  • Eyes

• I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Sand

• The positive shelf life of a new stadium has shrunk considerably. The new parks in themselves can't be a long-term or mid-term panacea.

  

  Bud Selig
  • Life
  • Long
  • Positive

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Interests