Mark Parker Quotes
Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
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Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.
