John Mackey Quotes
I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.
