Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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Villains are fun to play.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.
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'I hope they understand that I really understandThat they don't understand'
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You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.
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People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.
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A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
