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

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• 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
  • Classes
  • Accent

• 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

• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Together
  • Kiss
  • Rose

• Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Small

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• 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