Adam Rippon Quotes
It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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To me, America is just another market.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
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I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.
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If Flavor Flav was any smaller and darker, Brad and Angelina would try to adopt him.
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Nobody is all good or bad.
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It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.
