Phil Knight Quotes
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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No one person is an island.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'
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It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.
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We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.
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You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.
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Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.
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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
