Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
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Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.
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We need to learn from our experiences and take responsibilities for our actions and drive on.
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I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
