Lou Holtz Quotes

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• Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

  

  Picabo Street
  • She
  • House
  • Friend

• I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Age

• It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Gift
  • Meditation
  • Unknown

• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Want
  • Drummer
  • Tempo

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Church

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Ends

• Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Why

• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Society

• I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Long
  • True

• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Stress

• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  

  Don McLean
  • High
  • Fall
  • Musical

• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Object

• The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

  

  Lachlan Murdoch
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Desire

• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Laughing
  • Sadness

• My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Die
  • Sports
  • Actors

• A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • May
  • Firsts

• Never settle for second when first is available

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firsts
  • Available
  • Settling