Kevin Plank Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I was an expert horseman.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
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All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
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What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.
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We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.
