Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes
I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.
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Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
