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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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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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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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
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I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
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I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to be, but don't test me. It never was a done deal. It was a possibility. I'm happy about that. But there's two sides to that. On one side, I trust you, but don't play me. I don't care who it is, if it's the Boss, if it's him, don't play me. There are plenty of other teams out there that want my services ... that's the bottom line.
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Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
