Sean Covey Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.
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Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
