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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I don't know how people recognize me.
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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 think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a nice person.' That's what I'm most proud of.
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Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
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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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Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.
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It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.
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When I feel confident and comfortable, I'm better at my job.
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I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.
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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.
