"We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits."

-- Mike Vallely

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“When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything”
“I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.”
“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
“A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.”
“The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.”
“The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.”
“I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.”

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