Rick Smolan Quotes
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
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Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.
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Facts matter a great deal to me.
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.
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Oh, what a void there is in things.
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A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
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Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.
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I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
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Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
