John Schnatter Quotes
If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
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If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures such as the expectations of others or by our habits such as procrastination or by our desire for the approval of the world.
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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
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If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.
