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.

Rick Smolan

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• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Never
  • Until
  • Watergate

• We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Giving
  • Give
  • Harvest

• Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Weird
  • Watching
  • Grew

• 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.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • She

• 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.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• 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!

  

  Demian Bichir

• Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

  

  Bob Lilly
  • Today
  • Free

• It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

  

  Adam West
  • Character

• Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Education
  • Food

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• 'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race.

  

  Laurent Jalabert
  • Strong
  • Energy
  • Team

• My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

  

  Lucy Griffiths
  • Fear
  • Girly

• 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.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Technology
  • Anything
  • Depends