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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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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I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
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The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
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You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.
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It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.
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Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
