John Mackey Quotes
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
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The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
