Lou Holtz Quotes
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them.
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If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
