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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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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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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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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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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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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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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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
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I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
