Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
Iain Sinclair -
I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
Kajol -
I've always watched the political shows.
Larry Wilmore -
Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
Adam McKay -
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama -
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid -
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
Earl Blumenauer -
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar -
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter -
I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.
Yuri Lowenthal -
You can't expect critics to appreciate all kinds of cinema.
Allu Arjun -
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Christopher Lasch -
I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
Jane Campion -
I'm getting my confidence and momentum, and I'm playing free and playing loose.
Denis Shapovalov
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The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
H. L. Mencken -
If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
Brian Molko Placebo -
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
Edwin H. Friedman -
I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
Frustration is a function of our expectations.
Stephen Covey