Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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People will always want a free lunch.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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We manipulate fabric.
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I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.
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I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
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I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.
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Shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.
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To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.
