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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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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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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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.
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It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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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.
