John Henry Patterson Quotes
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I bat righty.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
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Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
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The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
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An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
