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.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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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.
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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.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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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.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.
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Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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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.
