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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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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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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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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When people feel good, they look good.
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There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
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Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
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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.
