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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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 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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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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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
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I shave my body probably once a week, maybe twice a week on the arms, just to keep it fresh.
