Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
