Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
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I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I am very far away from being angry. I really don't get angry most of the time. I am a patient person.
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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
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If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
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No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
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People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
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I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
