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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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 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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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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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.
