Steve Alford (Stephen Todd Alford) Quotes

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

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• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Hard Work

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• My ignorance is widespread.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ignorance
  • Widespread

• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  

  Ouida
  • Great
  • Laws
  • Petty

• We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Country
  • Education
  • Brain

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Money
  • Me
  • Painting

• I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • Through
  • Basically
  • Enriching

• Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Star

• I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sick

• I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Theater

• I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

  

  Steve Alford
  • Opportunity
  • Coach
  • Institutions