Ara Parseghian Quotes
I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I try and keep up with the top 10 on iTunes.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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The American elite does not have any real image of peace - other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.
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Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
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We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
