Allen Covert Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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She was a genius, my mother.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
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'Hellraiser' was the first horror film I ever saw, so it will always be a favorite.
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
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Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
