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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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
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In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
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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.