Lou Holtz Quotes
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
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In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
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Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
