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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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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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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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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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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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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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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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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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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One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.
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I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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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.
