John Mackey Quotes
The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
