Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
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I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
