Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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I'm nervous before all shows.
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I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn't know how to answer it, I will answer.
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Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
