Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes
When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.
Mike Vallely
Black Flag
Quotes to Explore
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A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
Patrick Henry
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We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
Vladimir Lenin
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There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
Wilson Greatbatch
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
William Gibson
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
Nikolai Gogol
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I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.
Lars Ulrich
Metallica
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Richard Feynman
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If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.
Toussaint Louverture
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Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.
Retief Goosen
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There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.
Ernie Els
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska