Lou Holtz Quotes
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
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I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say 'no', never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
