John Mackey Quotes
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.
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As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
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It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
