Ara Parseghian Quotes
The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
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My homies hold me down, really. I talk to Baby, Jeezy, Rozay, Nicki, everybody, from jail. Just call once in a while and holla at people like, 'Yo what's up? What's life like out there?' for people to give me a report of what's going on.
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'Thank you' is never enough for me to say to my family.
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The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.
