Dave Thomas Quotes

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

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• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • World
  • Food
  • Best

• Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Together
  • Common
  • Defeat

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Single
  • Looking
  • Meet

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Compliment

• We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Me
  • Makeup

• You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Orchestra

• The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Sports

• British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea you were British.'

  

  David Harewood
  • People

• Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Jump

• It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.

  

  Brian Thompson
  • Mayo Clinics
  • University of Minnesota
  • Grant program

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Children
  • Hope

• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  

  Austin O'Malley
  • Friendship

• During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

  

  Dave Thomas