Ara Parseghian Quotes
I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
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We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
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I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
