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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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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The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.
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In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
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Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
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The good father does not have to be perfect. Rather, he has to be good enough to help his daughter to become a woman who is reasonably self-confident, self-sufficient, and free of crippling self-doubt, and to feel at ease in the company of men.
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I do at least 75 push-ups a day.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
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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.
