Rick Smolan Quotes
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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I love playing sport.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.
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Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.
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When you go out and meet new people, you can come up with new ideas and be enlightened and help the country become a better place.
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People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.
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I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
