Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
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Changing people's habits is very expensive.
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Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
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The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
