Adam Rippon Quotes

I am usually wearing some sort of see-through when I am competing.

Adam Rippon

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Earth
  • Play
  • Leave

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Moment

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Live
  • Think
  • Boy

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Face

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Character
  • You

• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Childhood

• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Truth
  • Rejection
  • False

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Rome

• I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

  

  Jacob Zachar

• I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Long
  • Bigs
  • Bottom

• Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Fighting

• I am usually wearing some sort of see-through when I am competing.

  

  Adam Rippon