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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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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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and 'What I Like About You.' It's all pretty much the same people I've worked with and it was pretty protected.
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There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.
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Coaches are people who are close to you, who you call family.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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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.
