Adam Rippon Quotes

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Style

• The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Miracle
  • Gift

• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Funny
  • Awards
  • Host

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • You
  • Tough

• Habits change into character.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Change
  • Habits

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Time
  • Back
  • Go

• Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Live
  • Blessed

• I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Wisdom

• My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Smile
  • Grandmother

• I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Important