Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes

I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

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• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Technology
  • Smart
  • Doing

• I think governments can't do much.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Government
  • I Think

• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Help
  • Small
  • Law

• And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings

• I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer?

  

  Logic
  • Wonder

• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Done

• Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack

• John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Black
  • Challenge

• The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Beautiful

• We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

  

  Beth Brooke
  • Women
  • Business
  • Leadership

• ’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.

  

  George Farquhar
  • Good
  • Country

• All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Life
  • Urge

• Bob Newhart, who is my best friend, is one of the guys I adore.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Friend

• I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.

  

  Bill Nye
  • World
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

  

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  • Trying
  • Powerful
  • Nurture