John Mackey Quotes
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
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I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
