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Rick Steves Biography

Richard Steves (born May 10, 1955) is an American travel writer, author, activist and television personality. Since 2000, he has hosted Rick Steves' Europe, a travel series on PBS. Steves also has a public radio travel show called Travel with Rick Steves (2005−present) and has authored numerous travel guides.

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It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

Age, Childhood, Matters, Too Late

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

Learning, Opportunity, Perspective, Rich, Travel

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

Color, Palette, Personally, Perspective, Stories, Story

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.

America, Country, Eventually, Travel, Wall

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

Adventure, Lasts, Legal, Source, Sources, Travel

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Field, Lacking, People, Photography, Thinking

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.

Culture, Essentials, Found, Humanity, Traveler

I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been use will not go up when it's legalized. We'll just take the crime out of it. It's already a huge black market economy.

Contention, Economy, Fall, Marijuana, Take, Thinking

I have used cannabis all over the world.

Cannabis, Used, Weed, World

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

Chance, Convert, Drug, Might, Reform, Respect

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.

Attitude, Fun, Knees, Risk, Risks

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 and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

Across, Art, Canals, Cities, Night

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Communication, Consciousness, Kills, Self

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

Believe, Bomb, Bombs, Hurt, Know

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

Efficiency, Helping, Helps, Synergy, Unique

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Change, Fanatically, Optimistic, Positivity, Stay Positive

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.

Begin, Dream, New Year, Reality, Sort, Table

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.

Home, Raised, Self, Thinking, Truths

I've traveled all over the country. Look at the East Coast. They just can't hardly believe how far along we are and in their world it feels like they're still behind. They're on the dark side of the moon.

Believe, Coast, Country, Dark, Moon

We're still a racist country, but we've come a long way since the civil rights eras and we are still a homophobic country, but we've come a long way in that regard. And we still got a war on marijuana and have come along in that regard.

Country, Eras, Marijuana, Racist, War

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