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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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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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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If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
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Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.
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I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
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When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.
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Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
