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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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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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I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
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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.
