Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
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When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
