Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes

I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

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• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

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• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

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• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

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• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

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• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

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• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

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• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

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• I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

  

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• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

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• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

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• I'm a big Stephen King fan.

  

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• For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

  

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• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  

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• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

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• You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'

  

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• You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

  

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• When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

  

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• People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

  

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• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  

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• I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

  

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