Adam Rippon Quotes
Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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All art is a confession.
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If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
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I'd love to teach theatre arts.
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The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.
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Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.
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Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
