Adam Rippon Quotes

I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'

Adam Rippon

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Baby

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• What is important is to win.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Win

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Art
  • She

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Day
  • Value

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Remember
  • Think

• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • High
  • Mom

• My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • School
  • Done
  • Age

• You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

  

  John Quelch
  • She
  • Breakfast

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe

• The history of science-especially physics-has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance...

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Experience
  • History
  • Science

• I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins

• I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Important
  • She
  • Remember