Nile Kinnick (Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr.) Quotes

For three years, nay for fifteen years, I have been preparing for this last year of football...I anticipate becoming the roughest, toughest all-around back yet to hit this conference.

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• There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Risk
  • Missing
  • Data

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Me
  • Building
  • Brand

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Successful
  • Internet

• Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Much
  • Than

• I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • You
  • Audience

• I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Year
  • Plan

• U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Technology

• Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

  

  Charles Horner
  • Work

• In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

  

  Bjork
  • Why
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• You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.

  

  Diego Costa

• Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

  

  Liz Williams
  • Science

• Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

  

  Ken Kesey

• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Running

• Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life
  • Business
  • Attention

• Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Trust
  • Actors
  • Performer

• It was so fun to see my hair all brushed out - it looked like caramel-flavored cotton candy!

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Fun
  • Hair
  • Candy

• For three years, nay for fifteen years, I have been preparing for this last year of football...I anticipate becoming the roughest, toughest all-around back yet to hit this conference.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Football
  • Preparing
  • Conference