Adam Rippon Quotes
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.
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I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.
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The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.
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I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
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If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
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I am from Scranton, PA.
