Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
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I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
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I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
