Lou Holtz Quotes
Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
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Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
