Mike Mills Quotes

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

Mike Mills

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IntelligenceThinkAnimalsEmotion

I think there are really great movements happening in Portland. It's nice being in a place that supports itself and stands on its own.

John Gourley

GreatThinkPlaceNicePortlandOwn

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

Robert Kirkman

WritingPictureLookTroubleGoing

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

LeadershipCaringThinkRememberWay

Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.

Angela Ahrendts

SlowDownStopFocusedKeep

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Amy Chua

ParentingPeopleMeConflictFeel

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

Ron Howard

WorkSpaceDoneBecauseWellSure

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound.

Ry Cooder

GoodSpaceNiceWillCaptureSound

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

Matt Besser

CharacterYouGroupSketchTalkSee

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

Mary Oliver

ChildWoodsLovedBicycleYoung

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Lori Petty

CollegeWayPoorPhotographerFirst

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

Lisanne Falk

LifeBeautifulYouLookRealSee

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

Douglas Coupland

ThinkMoralSocialI ThinkRepugnant

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