Dan T. Cathy Quotes
I have learned almost everything I know about leadership by following people who inspire me.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
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'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.
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We did talk about cheese on our first date.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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I have learned almost everything I know about leadership by following people who inspire me.
