John Mackey Quotes
My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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What a friend we have in cheeses.
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I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
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Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
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You can't play the best team in the nation with no time to prepare. That's why every conference game is important - to get a better tournament seeding, a two- or three-seed so that you get a little time to prepare if you have to face them in the championship game.
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My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
