John Hendricks

John Hendricks
John Samuel Hendricks is an American businessman and is the founder and former chairman of Discovery Communications, a broadcasting and film production company which owns the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet networks, among other ventures. On March 20, 2014, after 32 years at the helm, he made public his decision to retire early from the board and leadership of Discovery Communications after the annual shareholders' meeting of May 16, 2014, and he moved on to lead the new large...
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We're just going to play our defense. The defense is designed to keep (an opponent) from passing. No matter who you are, we are always going to play our defense. We always have five defensive backs in the game.
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If they can streamline the process so young people realize the importance of attending school, that's important,
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Somehow, they have become our conference rival, and we're opening the season with them, so I'm expecting a good, hard-fought game.
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The next wave of media is to unleash the power of serving people's special interests. Every time I walk into a Borders bookstore, I spend a lot of time looking at the magazine rack ? because staring at you are all the passions of America. The bride who is about to get married, there is a magazine for her. And for the person who is a little older, there are wonderful travel and leisure magazines.
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The offense played well tonight, but we still have things to work on.
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They do command a good share of the waters in the rivers in the Front Range.
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I thought it was a good event. I'm not displeased. I thought that we had a pretty decent crowd. Obviously it wasn't as large as South Carolina State. But hopefully the city of Columbia and the people of South Carolina will see that this is a very viable game, and they'll decide they will come out and support these young people. This is a very good game.
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Sometimes last year, we just didn't seem to be together as a team.
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The big challenge with produce versus tobacco has been the marketing,
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We've got to do a better job of playing to the level we're capable of in the second half.
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We got to get things going on the other side of the ball.
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A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.
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My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.
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We are putting all the elements together for a hugely successful league, and we are very optimistic and confident we will not be disadvantaged in any way, ... Our investment group is fully capable of getting this league going and running it.