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.

Rick Smolan

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• 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.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Art
  • Me
  • Opera

• 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.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Age
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nice

• Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Words
  • Proud

• 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?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People

• 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.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • People

• I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Work
  • Failure

• I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Die
  • Diversity

• Oh, what a void there is in things.

  

  Persius

• 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.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Music
  • School
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Althea Gibson
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Up
  • Weird

• We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Father
  • Question

• I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Reality

• When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sin
  • Errors
  • Dialogue

• I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Unhappy

• A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Miracle
  • Senate

• 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.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Science
  • Teaching
  • Pretend