John Mackey Quotes
Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It's like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we strive to make shopping engaging, fun and interactive.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
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I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
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Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It's like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we strive to make shopping engaging, fun and interactive.
