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.'
Quotes to Explore
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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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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'
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Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
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I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.
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It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.
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I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
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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.'
