Top 33 Rick Steves Sayings: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rick Steves

#1. Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle's hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn.

James Patterson

#2. Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Roy Orbison

#3. I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

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#4. It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

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#5. Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

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#6. All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Harvey Weinstein

#7. Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

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#8. I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

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#9. If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it ... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

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#10. As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

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#11. Self-consciousness kills communication.

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#12. Churchill War Rooms: Â£18, daily 9:30-18:00, last entry one hour before closing.

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#13. Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

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#15. I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Madeleine Albright

#16. Travel is intensified living ... and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

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#17. At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valery

#18. A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

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#19. El-Masri lies under gravel and shingle, with no part of him visible aboveground except his left hand

Steven Pressfield

#20. Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right.

Tom Robbins

#21. I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

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#22. Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren't to your liking, change your liking.

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#23. I have used cannabis all over the world.

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#24. I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

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#25. Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

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#26. Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.

Tori Spelling

#27. Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

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#28. Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

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