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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I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
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I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.
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It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too.
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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.
