Phil Knight Quotes
I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
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I like cycling and swimming and walking everywhere. I'm not going to the gym. I like being outside rather than inside a room.
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You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
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I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
