Allen Covert Quotes
Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
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I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.
