Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
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People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
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I'm a firm believer in time. I know a lot of people don't believe in time like I do, but I think time heals and kind of reveals all for me.
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In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
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I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
