Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
I love Japan; it's very special.
Irina Shayk -
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
Hannah Kent -
Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
Nancy Kress
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Ian Caldwell -
For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
Hannibal Buress -
You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
Barry Ritholtz -
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
Fernando Pessoa -
(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
Eduard Hanslick
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
Camille Paglia -
Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
Yoko Ono -
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
Edwidge Danticat -
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
Charles Dickens -
There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
Mary Beard -
Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
Andy Grammer
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My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
Daniel Radcliffe -
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
Napoleon Hill -
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
O. Henry -
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Stephen Covey