Mark Parker Quotes
The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, 'Just give me what works the best - I don't care what it looks like.' They're very concerned with what it looks like and how it makes them feel.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.
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And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, 'Just give me what works the best - I don't care what it looks like.' They're very concerned with what it looks like and how it makes them feel.
