Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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We lit the whole world up before we blew up/I still don’t know just how we screwed it up.
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Sheikh Rahman's fatwa was the first time that anyone associated with al Qaeda had given religious sanction to attacks on American aviation, shipping and economic targets.
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
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I've never had the patience of a teacher.
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Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.
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When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
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I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
