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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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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.
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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!'
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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.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
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I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
