Adam Rippon Quotes
I usually finish things in the last second. But I think, as I've gotten older, I don't worry about it, and I just rock it.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
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I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
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In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
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Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
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I usually finish things in the last second. But I think, as I've gotten older, I don't worry about it, and I just rock it.
