Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put out next? 'And, you know, there were times I felt like, 'Are there going to be people out there waiting for this record?'. So we kind of live in a bubble, in a sense. We're very closed off to that whole world of thinking about those kinds of things.
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What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
