Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
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It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
