Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.
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It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
