Lou Holtz Quotes
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
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I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
