Phil Knight Quotes
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
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A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.
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I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.
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Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
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Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
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I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
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Kendall is really satisfied on her role in 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians.' With her modeling career, she's so busy. If she's not walking a runway, she's shooting a campaign or traveling around the world with her fashion obligations. She's a pretty busy little girl.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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I've said many times that I might as well have webs between my toes.
