Ara Parseghian Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
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I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.
