Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.
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Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
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Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.
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Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
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You can't change the system through violence.
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Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
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The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.
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In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
