Geno Auriemma Quotes

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Geno Auriemma

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Think
  • Find

• It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Creating
  • Israel
  • Remarkable

• Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Want

• There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Long
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• I'm a real optimist.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Real
  • Optimist

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Art
  • Business
  • Wish

• To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Equal
  • Worth
  • Twice

• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Friends

• I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Education
  • Eyes

• Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Clothes
  • Complaining
  • Loud

• If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Nature

• I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

  

  Michael Urie
  • Fans

• You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Things
  • Ends
  • Beginnings

• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Taken
  • Needs
  • Consciousness

• With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

  

  Geno Auriemma
  • Things
  • Pressure
  • Absence