Ryan Sheckler (Ryan Allen Sheckler) Quotes
I shave my body probably once a week, maybe twice a week on the arms, just to keep it fresh.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
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But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
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I shave my body probably once a week, maybe twice a week on the arms, just to keep it fresh.
