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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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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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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The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!
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Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.
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I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.
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Change does happen, you know?
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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.
