Phil Knight Quotes
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'
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You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
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We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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Obviously, the bulk of my Nike shares have been set up in a trust.
