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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There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
