David Devant Quotes
Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
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I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.
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I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
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Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
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Governor Romney says he's against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine... Mr. Romney, my family is just as real as yours.
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I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
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Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
