Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
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When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
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Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
