Phil Knight Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.
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To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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I’m quite certain that we’ll have such lunar bases in our lifetime, somewhat like the Antarctic stations and similar scientific outposts, continually manned.
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I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.
