Adam Rippon Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
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My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.
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All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.
