Adam Rippon Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
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I’m in mourning for my life.
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Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.
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I didn't have a resume when Lil Wayne hired me. I didn't have a resume when Beats by Dre flew me across the country to be their 12th employee. I still don't have a resume!
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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She Clinton walks in front of me, she walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn’t impressed.
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Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.
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I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.
