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.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Matter
  • Just
  • Lip Gloss

• 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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
  • Classes

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• 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.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Today
  • Same
  • Globalization

• 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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• 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.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Seeing

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I was always opinionated.

  

  Kim Novak

• I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

  

  Jacqueline McKenzie
  • She
  • Theatre
  • Green

• The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mother
  • Affection
  • Maximum

• I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because I wasn't smoking marijuana. When my daughter gave me a vape pen, I realized that I could relegate it to where I needed it to be. And I would talk to my older grandkids in their 20s, and they'd say they use weed to stop cramps. That's when I really started to investigate and asked the question, "Is anybody doing this?" And they gave me that horrifying answer: "niche market".

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Crazy
  • Daughter
  • Weed

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

  

  Phil Knight
  • Rock
  • Sports