John Mackey Quotes
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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'I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.'
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Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
