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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The world needs some help.
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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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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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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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When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
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I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
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If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.
