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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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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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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I don't discuss women at all with anyone. There are good qualities in all women. Some may be lacking in some of these qualities and should have them. I'm liable to say so and hurt their feelings, and it wouldn't be meant that way at all.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
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The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
