Rick Smolan Quotes

If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Without literature my life would be miserable.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Literature
  • My Life

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Ambition

• I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Truth
  • War

• I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Crush

• Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Mind

• Old people are often impatient, but for what?

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • People

• The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Hard Work

• I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music

• Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?"

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • America
  • Energy
  • Would