Sean Covey Quotes
My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.
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For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
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It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.
