Hugh Mackay Quotes

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Hugh Mackay

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PeopleWritingSmallReadingGoal

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

Jim Cantalupo

TimePartnerThinkingSaidAbout

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

John L. Flannery

FutureIndiaManufacturingSeeBig

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Tom Seaver

WinWorldOutUnitedVietnamGet

As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money).

Rose George

MoneyEnergyFatDownNowOil

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

Mike D

SittingWorkingOurFrontLaptops

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.

Miriam Shor

PeopleDecisionsMeetingsYouMeet

I don't really care what people think of me.

Jazz Jennings

PeopleMeThinkCareReally

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Douglas Coupland

FutureRichWillBecomeTorture

The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.

Chris Fussell

AgeRealitySpeedInformationSystem

I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn't understand why we didn't put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, 'Tell me again - what's Wi-Fi?'

Brian L. Roberts

HomeMeBackLateSaidUnderstand

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Bradley Cooper

MeSomeoneGuiltSayBecauseFavor

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Alistair Cooke

MusicLikeWallpaperCanned

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