Lou Holtz Quotes
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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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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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
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I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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I don't drink or party. There's literally no time for that. As soon as I finish a show, I go straight back to the hotel room, do emails, I sleep, that's it.
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My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
