Rick Smolan Quotes

In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.

Rick Smolan

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ChildrenTimeMeStoryAmericanSaw

I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

Jim Crace

HateLongYouBigGotStuff

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Andrew Natsios

FoodPeopleShipDieEatCost

My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.

Shimon Peres

FamilyLivePeopleDreamTrueOwn

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Rob McElhenney

AestheticComedyNeedSeemJust

I was really scared to make this album and to make this song. Because I didn't want to talk about it. For me, it's even deeper than just '1-800.' 'Everybody' as a whole... I was terrified.

Logic

MeSongWantTalkScaredWhole

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

Dick Costolo

RespectServiceValueVoiceSomeone

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.

Chrysippus

SeaMenManFishSayPoor

Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.

Bret Stephens

ArtPoliticsDownWayPossibleUp

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

PersonTreatmentShowsTrifles

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Peter Mayhew

CharacterSpeakThinkLanguageHe

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Thomas J. Stanley

LeadershipCourageSchoolSucceed

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.

Tyra Banks

GoodMyselfCareBetterBodyKnow

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