Phil Knight Quotes
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

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Second place is just the first place loser.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.