Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
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I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
