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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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Louis Leo Holtz
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here. Excuses were not an option.
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Broadcasting is easy you just talk until you think of something to say.
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