John Mackey Quotes

If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you out.

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• I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Good
  • Laughing
  • Grew

• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Alone
  • Learn

• I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Emotion
  • Performance
  • Impact

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Lonely
  • Afraid
  • Top

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Away

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

  

  Larry King
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

  

  James Gray
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

  

  Taylor Handley
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

  

  Peter Scott
  • Famous

• If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you out.

  

  John Mackey
  • Growing
  • Growth