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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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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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The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.
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I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
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At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.
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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.
