Adam Rippon Quotes

I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.

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• I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Car
  • Down
  • Race

• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Way
  • Fire
  • Jesus Christ

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • You
  • Body
  • Working

• In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Interesting
  • Opinion
  • Awesome

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Attached
  • Malaysia

• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Leaving
  • Going
  • Bee

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• I love cars, but I love bikes more.

  

  Candace Kita
  • More
  • Cars
  • Bikes

• I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they seem so interesting.' I don't take acting that seriously.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • God
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Cool

• Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Cool
  • Funeral

• Sometimes it is okay to have some chocolates and ice-creams. We all have those days sitting in front of the TV and have those. But you have to have the balance.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Balance

• Aretha Franklin, she's just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers that I just loved and sang along to on the radio. I guess I just enjoy trying out different styles along the way.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Different
  • Trying
  • She

• I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Cool