S. Truett Cathy Quotes
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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Consumers around the world are excited to share common experiences.
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I'll live a lush life in some small dive.
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I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
