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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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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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 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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It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
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O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
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Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.
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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.
