Ryan Sheckler (Ryan Allen Sheckler) Quotes
Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!
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I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
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I don't worry about whether or not people like me.
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Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, he liked the Shimmy best: At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it.
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Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
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Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
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Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
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Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.
