Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.
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When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
