Adam Rippon Quotes

As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Disease
  • Environmental
  • Only

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Little boys have amazing minds.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Amazing
  • Minds
  • Little

• We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Technology

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Environment

• 'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • God
  • Trouble
  • Rejoice

• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Delicious
  • Chamber
  • Steam

• As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Thinking
  • Remember