You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.

'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.