Richard M. DeVos Quotes

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.

Richard M. DeVos

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My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

Joanne Froggatt

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You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

Jill Paton Walsh

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When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Jemima Kirke

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Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Jeanne Moreau

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I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive.

Steve Erickson

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I am a very positive and optimistic person.

Rita Moreno

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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

Rowan Atkinson

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You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

Jean Chatzky

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Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

Diogo Morgado

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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

Cornel West

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One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

Brian Schatz

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I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.

Ariana Grande

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