Dean Devlin Quotes

In movies, we've run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don't have to worry about offending anyone.

Dean Devlin

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

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I was the first one to have high-speed Internet before all my friends.

Jeffree Star

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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

John Ruskin

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We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

Amanda Foreman

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My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins

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I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Roger Daltrey

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As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

Russell Simmons

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There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

Johnny Vegas

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

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Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

Cherry Jones

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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Clement Attlee

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