Robert J. Fisher Quotes

We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy lines around your freedom.

Robert J. Fisher

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What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

Joe Jamail

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Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

John C. Calhoun

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!

John Paul Jones

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As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

Mary Quant

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How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

Jose Padilha

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dorothy Thompson

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There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

Constance Wu

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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Anne Sullivan

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It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

William Pollard

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Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

Phyllis Smith

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The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi. They were Gadhafi devotees who were loyal to him and to the U.S. government with whom their leader reached a 'deal.'

Pete Hoekstra

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