Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I'm evangelical.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
