Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
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The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
