Lou Holtz Quotes
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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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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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.
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Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
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After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.
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In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
