Sean Covey Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.
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I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
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I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
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In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.
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Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.
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Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.
