Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
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I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.
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I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
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I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
