Adam Rippon Quotes
Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.
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Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.
