Rick Smolan Quotes
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
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Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.
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We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.
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A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.
