Phil Knight Quotes
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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.
Saffron Burrows -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
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.
Ian Rush -
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
J. C. Watts -
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.
Samuel Johnson
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In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn -
I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
Faran Tahir -
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.
Carl Lewis -
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.
Imre Lakatos
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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?
Samantha Power -
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall -
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Kamala Harris -
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
Sally Schneider -
In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
Dallas Roberts -
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
Laura Linney -
Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.
Edward John Trelawny -
Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
Laura Dern -
Whether you talk about Africa or underbanked communities, these are all examples where Ripple can change the way society works.
Brad Garlinghouse -
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux -
I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.
Phil Knight