Rick Smolan Quotes
Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.
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Thierry Henry is Thierry Henry. I still have everything to prove. By continuing to work, I will try to reach his level, but I am still very far off.
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I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
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Ballet is only good when it is great.
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Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.
