Lou Holtz Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.
