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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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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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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Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.
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I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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.
