Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
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On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.
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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
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Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
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I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.
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I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.
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I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
