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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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
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I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.
