Dave Thomas Quotes
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Dave Thomas
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
Imran Amed
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Wayne Allard
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. Philip Randolph
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Rachel Weisz
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
Jack Ma
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I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.
Dennis Christopher
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I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things.
Kathryn Minshew
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I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.
Frank Deford
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There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.
Joe Bastianich
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Dave Thomas
