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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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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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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I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
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I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.
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Every single day has a different combination of exercises. It always changes, and that's what keeps things interesting.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.
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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.
