John Mackey Quotes
I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business, run it by being grounded in ethical consciousness.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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People retire to do what I do every day.
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Question: Do you think that there is only one Perfect Master?
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business, run it by being grounded in ethical consciousness.
