John Mackey Quotes
We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
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People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.
