Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
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I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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Short ribs in the middle of a hamburger? That was pretty groundbreaking.
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I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
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I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.
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It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
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We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
