Richard M. DeVos Quotes
I still refer to myself as a 'cheerleader' because I keep encouraging others to have confidence and to use their talents to follow their dreams. It's been one of the most important reasons for my success and my helping others succeed.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
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The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
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Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.
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I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
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The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I still refer to myself as a 'cheerleader' because I keep encouraging others to have confidence and to use their talents to follow their dreams. It's been one of the most important reasons for my success and my helping others succeed.
