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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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