Rick Steves Quotes

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• 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…
• A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.
• Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.
• I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.
• I have used cannabis all over the world.
• 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…
• Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.
• 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.
• Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a…
• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective...
• Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.
• 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…
• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs…
• I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.
• Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
• Self-consciousness kills communication.
• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of…
• If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.
• Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.
• 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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