Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.
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I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.
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Music is like film to me.
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You can succeed as a terrible director, but try doing that with stand-up: try being a terrible comedian and getting up on stage. The funny will win out very, very quickly.
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It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.
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I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
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ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was otherwise respectful and adhered to basic moral values or basic tenets of civility and respect.
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I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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Internal victories precede external victories.
