William DeVries Quotes
Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I love working in New York.
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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It is harder in many ways to live in the middle than at the edges. Much harder to interpret as you see fit, because then you have no assurance you are doing right in the eyes of God, no confidence you will be rewarded in the afterlife
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.
