Richard M. DeVos Quotes

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

Richard M. DeVos

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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Jim Courier

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Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

John Eisenhower

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Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

Maximillian Degenerez

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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

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I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.

Maura Tierney

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My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.

Stephen Lang

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With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Tom Wopat

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I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Robin McLeavy

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I learned nothing while I was in school.

Lorraine Bracco

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'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

Brendan Fletcher

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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Brian Eno

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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Bret Easton Ellis

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