Ara Parseghian Quotes

You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Charity
  • Big

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• My parents have always been very open.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Open

• Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game
  • Day
  • Football

• Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Growth
  • Social
  • Welfare

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The news had stirred him strangely. He listened for bulletins on the radio, which he had seldom turned on after finding that its basic function was advertising things for sale.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.

  

  Taliesin

• They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Book

• Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Everyday

• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it-even of my own music-with the same nuances forever.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Great
  • Music
  • Important

• No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

  

  Mel Brooks

• I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

  

  Clifton Collins, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • People
  • Pain
  • Personality

• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Good
  • Control
  • Spiritual

• Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Art
  • Critics
  • Idiot

• You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

  

  Ara Parseghian