Sean Covey Quotes
It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
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We need to fund our troops. We need to protect them. We need to increase homeland security. These are vital national security interest we need to fund.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.
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If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey