Adam Rippon Quotes
As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
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When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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It is perhaps worth while saying that semantics as conceived in this paper (and in former papers of the author) is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions to being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflicts. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense.
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As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.
