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Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when

Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."

Mark Hosler
Nike, Real, Simple
Source: www.avclub.com

Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.

Laurell K. Hamilton
Nike, Blue, Knives
Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.365, Penguin

She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more. Nike let out a laugh. " Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You'll get used to it.

Jennifer Estep
Girl, Nike, Eye
Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.258, Kensington Publishing Corp.

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

Jay Leno
Nike, Past, Air

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

James Surowiecki
Sports, Nike, Blue

Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!

David Letterman
Nike, Air, Sneakers

Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.

Christopher McDougall
Running, Nike, Feet
Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.183, Vintage

I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.

Chelsea Handler
Nike, Kids, Needs

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

Cathy Freeman
Nike, Australia, Publicity

We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.

Antonio Cromartie
Nike, Wall, Moving
Source: www.nfl.com

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Andrew Young
Nike, Achievement, Excellence

I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.

Ana Castillo
Nike, School, Son
Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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