John J. Mack Quotes
Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Broadway is really my life.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
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Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
