Kevin Plank Quotes
In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.
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I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
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The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for £250.
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The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
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In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.
