John Mackey Quotes

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

John Mackey

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SadWorldYouBecomeThingsSeem

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Andreja Pejic

CulturePeoplePotentialGenderFind

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Melanie Fiona

PositiveParentsMeWorldBuilding

It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.

John Paul Jones

PowerGreatPoliticalLateNewsSee

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

Robert Gottlieb

PeopleMeWritingCuriosityReal

People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have children. And why would you expect one set to be happier than another?

Angus Deaton

ChildrenPeopleYouWantWhyExpect

I've been doing a late-night talk show out here in New Mexico now, 'The After After Party.' We're going to finalize a deal to be in 50 million homes. How blessed can I be, man?

Steven Michael Quezada

ManBlessedDoingPartyNewTalk

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Rory MacLean

ImaginationCityMeProcessReality

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Ron Silver

RespectPeopleActorDifficultSaw

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Rollo May

PracticePeopleColleaguesProblem

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Ross Perot

LifeOrganizationLikeChartCobweb

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

Jared Padalecki

LoveFoodYouBodyCozyEat

Country music, to me, is what I grew up on.

Chris Lane

MusicMeCountryUpCountry Music

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