Ryan Sheckler (Ryan Allen Sheckler) Quotes
This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.
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This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.
