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Mike Thompson Quotes

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Mike Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1951

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Age Children Time Art Wife College

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Jerry Moran

Graduation Why Class Difficult Most

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat Will Become Individual Your

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

John Lasseter

Children Eyes Fun Video Games Think

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Andy Grove

First Miles Like Million Represent

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Mercedes Lackey

Good People Fighting Die Go Out

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

Amanda de Cadenet

I Am People Camera Behind Interested

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Robert Ballard

You Go Gettysburg Take Arizona Off

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Rory McIlroy

Seeing Swing Two Same Club Out

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

Mike Singletary

Life Time Moment Song My Life

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

Miguel Cotto

Time Fight Shine Think Ring Happen

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Michael Morpurgo

Children Reading Anything Fine Gets

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.

Jason Day

Work Game Golf Body Down Young