Ara Parseghian Quotes

I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Different
  • Think
  • Respect

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Thinking
  • Done

• When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Way
  • Goals
  • Struggles

• Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Up
  • Growing

• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Nice

• I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

  

  Ara Parseghian
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